P.R. Fail: 6th Street Viaduct Bridge Grand Opening

Competent public works directors missed an opportunity this week when promotors for its public grand opening celebration stuck to confined internet silos for its promotion target audiences. [Shaking our collective heads.] Online version, if you must, is at this link [Letters to the Editor: Boyle Heights elders feel left out of 6th Street Viaduct celebration.]

Read the architectural review of this unusual span which hovers not water, but urban life "Dramatic new 6th Street Bridge opens, delivering a ‘love letter’ to Los Angeles".

It's a very 'grammable piece of civic engineering.

"The new 6th Street Viaduct crosses more industry than water, spanning a scruffy flat of lofts, warehouses and rail lines," wrote reporter Rachel Uranga. It neither soars the East River nor gilds the San Francisco Bay, she wrote, but the 10-arch road above "is the largest and most expensive bridge the city has ever erected, connecting downtown to Whittier Boulevard" and creates "an iconic space to gather and to celebrate the city."

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