Gerald Desmond Bridge
Westward view from Long Beach
www.bridges-of-los-angeles-county.com
BH Photo #114529
This bridge has a pedestrian walkway.
3 bids for new contruction rec'd March 2012. New bridge to open by 2016.
The replacement bridge has started construction. Story at http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/23/local/la-me-bridge-2...
According to The Dailybreeze newspaper there are plans being made to replace the Gerald Desmond Bridge with a new cable supported bridge. Reasons given were deteriorating concrete in the decks and lack of clearance for larger, modern ships as well as the desire to increase capacity. The Dailybreese story was published January 30, 2010.
First this is an outstanding site I use often so no disrespect but I believe the span data for this bridge is actually the length of the entire truss/arch. Other sites report the bridge only spans about 527 ft (161 m) between the supports. The truss arch runs about the length mentioned for the span but it runs far beyond each support. I used Google Earth to measure the distance on the ground.