The Arcadia City Council votes Tuesday evening, April 6, to approve one of several conceptual designs for the bridge to be built over Santa Anita Avenue for the Gold Line light rail train which is to begin construction in June and open for business in 2013.
A bridge in Orange County offered as example of similar components within the different design element samples below for proposed bridge over Santa Anita Avenue.
The bridge above Santa Anita Avenue where the current railroad tracks create a slight rise in the road near Fasching’s Car Wash and Goldstein’s bakery will be between 170-feet and 230-feet wide and will lead to 30-foot-tall walls on each side of the tracks east of Santa Anita Avenue as the double tracks descend to street level at First Avenue.
The Council will also decide at some point on artwork to potentially be imbedded into the bridge, perhaps using a design and theme that would be extended to other areas of town.
A multi-level parking garage — two stories initially with the capacity to extend to four levels eventually — will be built across from 24 Hour Fitness on the northwest corner of First Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue, with a landscaped “transit plaza” potentially featuring public art in a triangle area between the tracks, street and garage.
The train station platforms will be built a few hundred feet down the tracks east of First Avenue on the southeast corner of the intersection.
Another bridge will be built over the eastbound lanes of the Interstate 210 freeway.
— By Scott Hettrick
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An example of what the retaining wall for the Gold Line tracks might look like between Santa Anita Avenue and First Avenue.
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