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

August 1999 (33.8962 Degrees, -118.1865 Degrees) Los Angeles River Bridges

Continuing downstream around a bend in the river, which now covers the bottom of the channel, as we get closer to San Pedro Bay. The Somerset Blvd. Bridge (53C0646) was built later (in 1976) and is distinguished from it's neighbors because it's a T-girder bridge without haunched girders. Still, all the bridges are cast-in-place, a tradition that was established with the first bridges in 1910. This area is less graffitied, perhaps because a bike trail has been built along the river or because it is more residential and less industrial. The bridge is six spans, 438 ft long, with two lanes in each direction, and with pier walls and cutwaters.

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