- City:
- Aptos, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
Description
"Most of the drivers rushing over the Valencia Bridge in Aptos never even see the sign. Its set low in the mossy concrete railing on one end of the span — a tarnished plaque that marks the history of hard times.
The plaque, which someone had recently graffitied with chalk, commemorates the 1935 construction of the narrow, tree-shadowed bridge. The span was built with funds from Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal, his program to restart the economy with a flood of stimulus money for social and public works projects."
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Juliana Cheng
Wow, this type of bridges are all over the County of Santa Cruz! How about the one on Soquel Drive near the train tresel going into “Aptos Village”? And the bridge over Hwy 1 connecting Soquel Drive into Capitola? It kind of looks like this one too!