The Riverside-Figueroa's existing steel span structure dates to the late 1930s. The concrete-arched abutments date to the late 1920s.
In the name of safety and based on indefensible 25-year traffic projections, the city of Los Angeles' Bridge Program is spending nearly $70 million to replace the bridge's two-lane pinch-point with a freeway-scale 4-lane speedway.
The Eastsider already ran some great aerial photos of the demolition. SBLA complements that coverage with this demolition sequence photographed by Daveed Kapoor. The new freeway-scale bridge, half-completed and already open to car traffic, is visible in the upper left of the photos.
There are seven L.A. County Reconnecting Communities grants totaling $162 million - about 90% of that goes to Metro's Removing Barriers project, which includes new bus lanes, first/last mile walk/bike facilities, bike-share, and more.
New bus lanes are coming to Broadway, Colorado Blvd., Crenshaw Blvd, Lincoln Blvd., Los Feliz Blvd., Santa Monica Blvd., Valley Blvd., Vermont Avenue, Westwood Blvd., Whittier Blvd. and many more city streets!