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Albion River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Deck truss bridge over Albion River on CA 1
- Location
- Albion, Mendocino County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1944
- Design
- Main span: Baltimore(?) deck truss
Approaches: Double-intersection Warren(?) deck trusses - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 129.9 ft.
Total length: 969.2 ft.
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.22611, -123.76917 (decimal degrees)
39°13'34" N, 123°46'09" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/433608/4342150 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Albion
- Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
- 2,100
- Inventory numbers
- CA 10-136 (California bridge number)
BH 11122 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of August 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 52 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- June 28, 2018: New photos from Mike Goff
- March 14, 2018: New photo from John Bernhisel
- February 17, 2018: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- June 4, 2017: New photos from John Bernhisel
- February 10, 2016: Photo imported by Dave King
- July 31, 2013: New photo from Mike Lynch
- March 9, 2012: New photos from Craig Philpott
- June 5, 2011: New photo from Craig Philpott
- March 9, 2010: Updated by Craig Philpott: added street view
- March 5, 2010: New photo from Craig Philpott
- August 4, 2009: New photo from Craig Philpott
- August 1, 2009: New photo from Craig Philpott
- March 7, 2009: New photos from C Hanchey
Sources
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Albion-Salmon Bridge Replacment Project - CALTRANS Project Page
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Wikipedia
- Mike Lynch - lynch3212 [at] wavecable [dot] com
- John Bernhisel - Johnmbernhisel [at] gmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Mike Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com
Comments
Albion River Bridge
One of the photos states:
"Postcard of Albion Bridge from the 1930's?"
as the bridge was built in 1944, and the photo appears to show the current bridge (rather than the low pony truss that preceded it), I don't believe the claim of 1930s is accurate. I won't claim to know when it's from, though.
Oddly enough that photo is no longer on wiki, and google image search doesn't find it anywhere other than here. When I look at the wiki article from July 2013 it isn't there either.
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ca/mendocino/100136/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ca/mendocino/100136/
The locals are working on getting it declared historic. Caltrans wants to replace it rather than retrofit due to a new bridge can be built while this one still in use versus closing it during retrofit. Caltrans says it has 10-20 years of life left but is costing $500,000 a year in maintaining the wood structure and the deck and they point out there is no pedestrian or bike access. This article is 1 year old.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Fate-of-Highway-1s-Las...