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Gerald Desmond Bridge Westward view from Long Beach www.bridges-of-los-angeles-county.com |
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Gerald Desmond Bridge Eastward view from Terminal Island www.youtube.com/users/bridgesoflosangeles |
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Gerald Desmond Bridge Southwest view form Signal Hill. http://www.beachcalifornia.com/gerald-desmond-bridge.html |
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Gerald Desmond Bridge Drawing Los Angeles Public Library Collection |
Facts
- Overview
- Bridge over Port of Los on California Highway 47 - Interestate 710 in Long Beach
- Location
- Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Builders
- - Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
- Moffatt & Nichol Engineers
- Design
- Suspended Deck - Steel Arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 1,053 ft.
Total length: 5,134 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.76389, -118.22125 (decimal degrees)
33°45'50" N, 118°13'16" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/386906/3736647 (zone/easting/northing)
- Elevation
- 250 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 36658 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 19, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
- February 21, 2010: Updated by Craig Philpott: Corrected GPS data
- December 18, 2008: New photo from David Kimbrough
- June 17, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson
- June 17, 2008: Updated by David Kimbrough
- June 14, 2008: Updated by David Kimbrough
- May 28, 2008: Added by David Kimbrough
Sources
- David Kimbrough - kimbrough-photo [at] charter [dot] net
- Craig Philpott - cphilpott [at] puc [dot] edu
- Nathan Holth
Comments
Gerald Desmond Bridge
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.