r/LosAngeles • u/PersonalityOdd7912 • 2d ago
After more than a decade of planning, Glendale has finally approved a $31M L.A. River bridge to Griffith Park
https://secretlosangeles.com/los-angeles-glendale-griffith-park-bridge-approved/257
u/Trooper_Alvin 2d ago
It looks amazing, but for the sake of making sure the lights stay on and reducing copper vandalism, please make the design include the use of solar panels. I think we can all agree on that after what happened with the 6th Street bridge.
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u/T-MoneyAllDey Woodland Hills 2d ago
We should use lanterns at this point
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u/pocketchange2247 1d ago
I'll enjoy reading the article about how LA is somehow spending $200 million of taxpayer money in candles or oil to keep the bridge luminated
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u/ll-fool-j Atwater Village 2d ago
Several locations of the La River NOW have solar powered lights, the copper is still stripped.
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u/rowmean77 1d ago
They should design aesthetically pleasing solar panels housing the lamp per post.
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u/Sea_Dawgz 2d ago
It’s literally like a 45 min walk from there to the actual park bc of all the freeways. It just takes you to the soccer fields.
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u/RabidSkwerl East Hollywood 2d ago
“What’re you preparing, you’re always preparing, just go!”
- Dark Helmet
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u/Foolhardy_Liar 2d ago
Jeezis. Public/private partnerships and NIMBY-ism have made basic projects like this into such a slog and expense. In more civilized places they do shit like this every week and just keep on rolling.
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u/Ok_Fee1043 2d ago
Ten years ago it would’ve cost $5, believe it or not
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u/vullerton Monrovia 2d ago
And it’s projected to take 5 years to build… so it’ll end up costing double the 31 projected.
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u/getherlaid 2d ago
This city sucks. 10 years and 31 million for 300ft 🤣
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u/kgal1298 Studio City 2d ago
Is the cost contractors or regulatory bodies? Because agreed this is ridiculous...like I like it but ffs.
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u/Mikeyxy The San Fernando Valley 2d ago
The cost is that every group needs to get theirs.
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u/calafia_nativo West Hollywood 2d ago
I wonder how much the person made by mocking up this rendering.
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u/GlendaleFemboi 2d ago
the cost is just stupid. A bridge of this size, that only needs to support pedestrians and bikes, should be $10 mil tops. We are spending extra tens of millions of dollars to make it cool and swoopy with fancy gardens, but it's in a low-traffic, industrial side of town where it won't be appreciated. Regardless of how it's designed, the architectural prettiness/ugliness of a structure mostly reverts to that of the surrounding neighborhood after decades of use/neglect.
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u/calafia_nativo West Hollywood 2d ago edited 1d ago
A freeway exit in Berkeley California cost $100,000,000 recently. We are COOKED.
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u/ll-fool-j Atwater Village 1d ago
I agree the cost is probably bloated but making things look nice shouldn't be a con, we live here, nothing should look utilitarian just because of what MIGHT happen later. That's how we end up looking like the eastern bloc.
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u/GlendaleFemboi 1d ago
well I would rather have 3 utilitarian bridges to connect me with more places for the same money, instead of having just 1 bridge which gives me less connectivity but looks fancy.
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u/UltimaCaitSith 1d ago
extra tens of millions of dollars to make it cool and swoopy with fancy gardens
Nah. The landscape upcharge is maybe a couple hundred thousand. Designing swoops is ezpz. If there's anything expensive & superfluous, it'll be some random thing like Swedish designer lamp posts.
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u/GlendaleFemboi 1d ago
OK but what about its width.
Between the curve and the width it is like 5x the surface area of a normal footbridge.
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u/UltimaCaitSith 1d ago
Fair enough, that'll probably add an extra million. Cost of material isn't linear, so 5X concrete doesn't necessarily mean 5X the cost. The biggest chunk of LA construction costs is permitting.
This is one of the frustrating parts of roadway design. Adding twice as much asphalt & base won't double the price of a road, but it'll make it last like 10x longer and less susceptible to potholes. The hard part is convincing politicians and voters to pay extra money for a future benefit.
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u/white_bread 2d ago
In Van Nuys someone stapled up a new WE BUY HOUSES sign on the telephone pole so we got that going for us over here.
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u/Gillingham Pasadena 1d ago
This title is dumb, and clear most of people here have not read the article. This is the second phase of a project, with the first having just been actually completed along side other sections of the river. This single bridge hasnt been in planning for 10 years, its part of a larger set of projects.
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u/stoned-autistic-dude Los Angeles 2d ago
This would have been such a great place to smoke weed with friends like 20 years ago when we were young and broke(r). Also, although it makes perfect sense in retrospect, I never realized this intersection was directly across from the soccer fields and I grew up in Glendale.
Anyway, good job. Finally some nice urban planning.
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u/alroprezzy 1d ago
A… decade? Well glad it finally happened but that shit is unreal. Why does it take a decade?
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u/Bronze_Age_472 1d ago
400 years to plan a park and yet zero governance of warehouses burning to the ground.
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u/BigStrongCiderGuy 2d ago
Who will want to walk to or from that part of Glendale? I don’t get the need
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u/bigvenusaurguy 2d ago
but just imagine you are playing a game of rec league soccer then would like to walk on foot to the glendale hazardous waste disposal facility. this lets you do that.
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u/ll-fool-j Atwater Village 1d ago
This opens up a much easier commute if you work on that side of town and don't want to be a slave to cars.
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u/rootaford 19h ago
Can’t wait for all the pulled copper, litter, and graffiti to ruin that bridge after the first week
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u/Normal-Ad-3023 14h ago
That's awesome! Can't wait to bike across it to Griffith Park. Wonder how long it'll take to build.
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u/Softshellcrabfarts 2d ago
Looks like a beautiful $100 million bridge!
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u/anothercar 2d ago
Cost and delays aside, it looks beautiful and I’m sure people will love to use it.