Los Angeles County, California Bridges: Firestone Boulevard Bridges across the Los Angeles River

August 1999 (33.9501 Degrees, -118.1711 Degrees) Los Angeles River Bridges

Today's bridge is a four span continuous steel girder bridge on pier walls across the Los Angeles River. The Firestone Boulevard Bridge (53C1972) was built in 1950 and it looks like cutwaters were added and then it was unfortunately widened with precast girders sitting on the cutwaters (see photo below). At least the cutwaters appear to be doing a good job of capturing debris during floods.

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