- City:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Completed:
- 1938
- Contractor:
- Pearson & Hollingsworth
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Vignes Street bridge is a large concrete viaduct carrying railroad traffic to Los Angeles’s Union Station. It was funded by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, i.e., Public Works Administration (PWA), during the Great Depression and completed in 1938.
The bridge is still in use today.
Source notes
Bridge plaque
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on December 23, 2014.
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