So this past Monday I boldly went somewhere by bike that I’d never gone before. And so, for the lack of a substantive and/or interesting post on any number of prevalent topics, I do hereby give you: The Los Angeles Riverbed Ride. In which I navigated downstream from the south end of Elysian Valley down to the Seventh Street Viaduct and then back. For your viewing pleasure, these are the 12 spans I pedaled under, beginning with the 110 Freeway and ending at Seventh Street.
A slideshow of the above Flickr set of images is viewable here.
After the jump is the SFW video-still of the naked guy I encountered under the First Street Viaduct who was bathing in the water (given its quality I use “bathing” in its least optimistic sense), along with the obligatory timelapse video of the entire ride. Enjoy.
(click it for the bigger picture)
cool video!! would’ve never guessed the bridges vary so much; it seems like a single unified architecture would be more cost effective. all the same i’m glad they ‘splurged’ for the sake of diversity :D
Thanks Movoto. There’s a great LA Conservancy page to learn more about the history of Los Angeles’ landmark river bridges and viaducts at:
http://www.laconservancy.org/bridges/index.php
At the top of that page is a great downloadable PDF of the booklet “Spanning History.” Here’s the direct link:
http://www.laconservancy.org/bridges/SpanningHistory_booklet.pdf