Los Angeles County, California Bridges: Alondra Boulevard Bridge across the Los Angeles River

August 1999 (33.8891 Degrees, -118.1875 Degrees) Los Angeles River Bridges

Like many other Los Angeles River bridges, the Alondra Blvd. Bridge (53C0031) was built in 1958 and widened in 1971. And like many of these bridges, it is a six span haunched girder T beam bridge on pier walls. It's funny how they were willing to cast a variable depth girder in the 1950s but not in the 1970s (like the Somerset Bridge just upstream). Perhaps the labor costs became so much higher that it acted as a disincentive to building more efficient bridges?

Los Angeles County, California Bridges: Alondra Boulevard Bridge across the Los Angeles River by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.