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Cold Spring Canyon Arch Bridge

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The Cold Spring Canyon Arch Bridge in the Santa Ynez Mountains links Santa Barbara, California with Santa Ynez, California. The bridge is signed as part of State Route 154. The current bridge was completed and opened to traffic in 1963 and won awards for engineering, design and beauty. It is currently the 5th-longest span arch bridge of this "supported deck" type in the world. Seismic retrofitting was completed in 1998.

Cold Spring Canyon Arch Bridge
Coordinates34°31′33.81″N 119°50′4.53″W / 34.5260583°N 119.8345917°W / 34.5260583; -119.8345917
Carries2 lanes of SR 154
CrossesCold Spring Canyon
LocaleSanta Barbara County, California
Maintained byCaltrans
Characteristics
Designsteel arch
Total length1,217 ft (371 m)
Longest span700 ft (210 m)[1]
Clearance below420 ft (130 m)
History
Construction costOver $2,000,000[1]
Opened1963
Location
Map

Cold Spring Tavern, originally a stagecoach stop, is approximately 600m south of the bridge's west base in the canyon below, on a stub of Old San Marcos Pass Road (now named Stagecoach Rd.) connecting with SR 154 at Camino Cielo and Paradise Roads.

The bridge causes concern in the Santa Barbara community as the site of dozens of suicides over the years so a barrier in the form of grid mesh fencing has recently been installed to prevent this.[2]

Cold Spring Canyon Bridge
  • Aerial view: Western end of bridge. Cold Spring Tavern is on Stagecoach Rd. beneath the bridge, just off the top of this photo.
    Aerial view: Western end of bridge. Cold Spring Tavern is on Stagecoach Rd. beneath the bridge, just off the top of this photo.
  • American Society of Civil Engineers commemorative plaque: on Stagecoach Rd.
    American Society of Civil Engineers commemorative plaque: on Stagecoach Rd.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Lansing Duncan (31 March 2011), A historic view of the ‘Steel Shortcut’ bridge, Santa Ynez Valley News, retrieved 4 August 2014
  2. ^ Caltrans Completes Suicide Barrier on Cold Spring Canyon Bridge
 
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