Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge

July 2024 ยท 2 minute read
Carries  SR 47
Construction started  1946
Height  72 m
NBI  53-2618
Opened  10 January 1948
Total length  210 m

Crosses  Cerritos Channel,Port of Los Angeles
Locale  Los Angeles, California
Design  Through-truss vertical-lift bridge
Width  81 feet (25 m) (including 75 ft for the six traffic lanes)
Address  Terminal Island Fwy, Long Beach, CA 90802, USA
Similar  Henry Ford Bridge, Port of Los Angeles, Gerald Desmond Bridge, Terminal Island, Vincent Thomas Bridge

Last lift of commodore schuyler f heim bridge


The Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge was a vertical-lift bridge in the Port of Los Angeles. Dedicated on January 10, 1948, the bridge allowed State Route 47 (the Terminal Island Freeway) to cross over the Cerritos Channel. It was one of the largest vertical-lift bridges on the West Coast. At the time of its opening, it was the highest in the country with the deck weighing about 820 short tons (740 metric tons). Its towers are 186 feet (57 m) tall above the roadway deck and about 236 feet (72 m) tall when measured from the water level at high water. The bridge was decommissioned on October 12, 2015 and will be replaced by a new, six-lane fixed-span bridge in order to meet current safety and earthquake standards. A replacement bridge, tentatively titled State Route 47 Schuyler Heim Bridge Replacement, is expected to open in early 2017.

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