Park Street Bridge
Park Street Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 37°46′18.08″N 122°14′11.65″W / 37.7716889°N 122.2365694°W |
Crosses | Oakland Estuary |
Locale | San Francisco Bay Area |
Characteristics | |
Total length | 372 feet |
History | |
Opened | 1893 |
Rebuilt | 1935 |
Location | |
The Park Street Bridge is a double-leaf
The Park Street bridge is one of the four bridges that allow access to Alameda. It is considered the best route for bicycles to cross to Alameda as the small narrow walkway in the
According to the Historic Bridges.org, The design of this fixed trunnion bascule bridge is strikingly similar to the earliest fixed trunnion bascule bridges built in Chicago in the first decade of the 20th Century including external rack (visible at the ends of the trusses) and through truss design (with no overhead bracing at the center of the bridge), however this California example dates to 1935.
History
The original Park Street bridge was completed in 1893. The Park Street, High Street, and
The present bridge was designed by the County of Alameda Surveyors Office and constructed under the Federal WPA Program. It was opened in 1935 with a grand opening celebration that included a public wedding of a man from Oakland and woman from Alameda to symbolize the unity of the two cities with the building of the bridge.[3]
References
- ^ "Alameda County Public Works Agency".
- ^ "BikeAlameda". BikeAlameda.org. BikeAlameda. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
- ^ "ACPWA.org". Alameda County Public Works Agency. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
External links
- Media related to Park Street bridge, Alameda, California at Wikimedia Commons
- https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=california/alamedapark/