Glendale-Hyperion Bridge, Road bridge in Atwater Village, Los Angeles, California, United States
The Glendale-Hyperion Bridge is a road crossing in Atwater Village that spans the Los Angeles River valley and Interstate 5. Its structure consists of thirteen concrete arches stretching across multiple hundred meters and carrying four lanes of traffic.
A wooden bridge from around 1910 stood here as Atwater Village's main entrance until a 1927 flood destroyed it. That year about 2,100 residents voted to build a new crossing, and work began on March 27, 1927, under designer Merrill Butler. He used 35,000 cubic yards of concrete, 6 million pounds of reinforcing steel and 13 arches; the bridge opened in September 1928 and was completed in February 1929.
The bridge's name joins Glendale and Hyperion Avenue, and its route carried Pacific Electric Red Cars until 1959. The concrete walls that held the tracks still stand beside the roadway, and since 2004 murals painted on them have given the space below the name Red Car Park.
The Atwater Red Car Pedestrian Bridge, completed in January 2020, runs 430 ft atop the old Red Car pylons and links the two banks of the Los Angeles River for pedestrians and cyclists. The Glendale-Hyperion Bridge itself carries four lanes of traffic. The concrete walls that held the Red Car tracks still stand beside the river crossing.
The murals painted in 2004 decorate the concrete walls that once carried Pacific Electric Red Car tracks, not a railway station. The area around them is now called Red Car Park. The tracks were dismantled after the line shut down in 1959, but the walls remain.
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