Interstate 10 / San Bernadino Freeway Over the San Gabriel River
Photo
Detail from the 1946 Report of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Parkway Engineering Committee
In 1946 a report was finalized for the construction of a system of "Inter-Regional, Regional, and Metropolitan Parkways" which included the Ramona Parkway which was to extend from Los Angeles to San Bernardino. This route is laid out in the map on page 15, crosses the San Gabriel just at Garvey Ave where a bridge already existed
Los Angeles Metropolitan Parkway Engineering Committee
Garvey Road and the San Bernadino Freeway
Written by David KimbroughThe San Bernardino Freeway crosses the San Gabriel River in El Monte just above where Walnut Creek joints the river. However, there was a bridge at this location long before the Freeway was built. Garvey Road crossed at this exact location in 1926. Garvey Avenue still leads right up to the rivers edge on both sides of the San Gabriel to this day. However, the freeway bends southward just before it crosses and lays atop where Garvey Road used to be. So while the current freeway bridge was built in the 1950's, the original bridge, shown in the 1927 aerial photograph, was there first.
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete tee beam bridge over San Gabriel River on Interstate 10 Wb
- Location
- Baldwin Park, Los Angeles County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1926 as Garvey Road, Replaced ; rehabilitated 2004
- Design
- Concrete tee beam
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 65.0 ft.
Total length: 757.9 ft.
Deck width: 66.3 ft.
- Also called
- Garvey Road
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.06500, -118.00500 (decimal degrees)
34°03'54" N, 118°00'18" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/407259/3769818 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- El Monte
- Inventory numbers
- CA 53-109L (California bridge number)
BH 52551 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 03/2011)
- Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 63.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
- 104,500
Sources
- David Kimbrough - kimbrough-photo [at] charter [dot] net
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