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Vincent Thomas Bridge
The Vincent Thomas Bridge is a 1,500-foot long suspension bridge crossing the Los Angeles Harbor linking San Pedro, California with Terminal Island. The bridge is signed as part of California State Highway 47. It is named for California Assemblyman Vincent Thomas of San Pedro (...)Top photos chosen by u all:
Vincent Thomas Bridge, San Pedro, California
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Bridgepixing the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, the cruise ship port of Los Angeles, California. Additional Bridge Photos and a Bridge Blog at www.Bridgepix.com. The Vincent Thomas Bridge is a 1,500-foot (460 m) long suspension bridge crossing the Los Angeles Harbor in the U.S. state of California, linking San Pedro, Los Angeles, with Terminal Island. The bridge is signed as part of State Route 47. It is named for California Assemblyman Vincent Thomas of San Pedro. Throughout the bridge's construction and in the early years after its opening, it was derided as a bridge to nowhere. In the 1970s, however, its importance drastically increased as the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach displaced those of the San Francisco Bay Area as the principal port on the West Coast. Today, the Vincent Thomas Bridge carries a considerable volume of truck traffic from the southernmost slips of the Port of Los Angeles, in San Pedro, onto the Terminal Island Freeway and eventually to the southern end of the Long Beach Freeway; from there, freight goes from the port complex to the rail yards of East Los Angeles and the Inland Empire. When the bridge opened in 1963, the toll was 25 cents in each direction. In 1983, the toll increased to 50 cents for westbound traffic but became free for eastbound traffic. By 2000, the Vincent Thomas Bridge was one of only two toll bridges remaining in Southern California (the other being the San Diego-Coronado Bridge in San Diego), during which year tolls on the Vincent Thomas Bridge were removed completely. After the San Diego-Coronado Bridge stopped collecting tolls in 2002, the California Department of Transportation was able to devolve authority over toll bridges to the Bay Area Toll Authority in June 2005. The Catalina Terminal (Berth 95), the location for all of San Pedro's departing ferries and helicopters to Santa Catalina Island, is located underneath the western part of the bridge. (Wikipedia)
The Vincent Thomas Bridge
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LA's so-called Golden Gate Bridge, the Vincent Thomas in San Pedro. I took this on our way to Long Beach to meet up with the gang. Yep, it was raining. And you wouldn't know it from thsi shot, but as soon as we got to the other side of the bridge, it stopped raining and the sky was blue. Downtown Long Beach was bone dry. Go figure. Feb. 19, 2007
Underneath The Bridge
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Vincent Thomas Bridge, San Pedro, CA
Vincent Thomas Bridge
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listen to the Disneyland song while going over the Vincent St. Thomas bridge in San Pedro, CA....Disneyland space mountain bridge san pedro
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