Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Caltrans Deems Georgia Street Bridge Deficient
The San Diego City Council on November 1 approved an amended agreement with Simon Wong Engineering for services on the Georgia Street Bridge renovation. This will add an additional payment of $493,000, boosting the firm's total remuneration to $735,968.
The Georgia Street Bridge, spanning University Avenue, was completed in 1914 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. District 3 councilmember Todd Gloria called the bridge a “cherished resource.” Caltrans has declared the bridge “functionally obsolete and seismically inadequate.”
The increased funding will pay for a seismic strategy report requested by Caltrans. The bridge has a “sufficiency rating” of 44.9 (on a 0-to-100 scale), according to a Caltrans document. Any bridge rated below 50 qualifies for federal replacement funding. Five bridge-modernization plans exist: two rehabilitation and three replacement proposals. Plans include lowering University Avenue.
Katherine Hon, secretary of the North Park Historical Society, commented by email: “Anything less than preservation of the bridge will be unacceptable to our organization. We support the additional seismic studies, and are hopeful that the detailed engineering work will result in development of successful strategies to preserve and protect this important landmark.”
Caltrans cited these bridge deficiencies: “non-standard barrier rails, non-standard approach guard railing, substandard inventory load rating (was not designed for modern vehicular loads), excessive asphalt on the bridge deck, substandard bridge width, and substandard vertical and horizontal clearance below the bridge.”
Take a walk around the Georgia Street Bridge...
Here's something you might be interested in.
Caltrans Deems Georgia Street Bridge Deficient
Caltrans Deems Georgia Street Bridge Deficient
The San Diego City Council on November 1 approved an amended agreement with Simon Wong Engineering for services on the Georgia Street Bridge renovation. This will add an additional payment of $493,000, boosting the firm's total remuneration to $735,968.
The Georgia Street Bridge, spanning University Avenue, was completed in 1914 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. District 3 councilmember Todd Gloria called the bridge a “cherished resource.” Caltrans has declared the bridge “functionally obsolete and seismically inadequate.”
The increased funding will pay for a seismic strategy report requested by Caltrans. The bridge has a “sufficiency rating” of 44.9 (on a 0-to-100 scale), according to a Caltrans document. Any bridge rated below 50 qualifies for federal replacement funding. Five bridge-modernization plans exist: two rehabilitation and three replacement proposals. Plans include lowering University Avenue.
Katherine Hon, secretary of the North Park Historical Society, commented by email: “Anything less than preservation of the bridge will be unacceptable to our organization. We support the additional seismic studies, and are hopeful that the detailed engineering work will result in development of successful strategies to preserve and protect this important landmark.”
Caltrans cited these bridge deficiencies: “non-standard barrier rails, non-standard approach guard railing, substandard inventory load rating (was not designed for modern vehicular loads), excessive asphalt on the bridge deck, substandard bridge width, and substandard vertical and horizontal clearance below the bridge.”
Take a walk around the Georgia Street Bridge...