Flower Street bridge construction photo gallery
1/5/10 — The Flower Street bridge falsework and forms have been removed.
12/11/09 — The concrete bride deck is complete except for the track areas.
11/13/09 — The top rebar on the Flower Street bridge over the Harbor Freeway appears nearly ready for concrete.
10/24/09 — The bottom and sides of the Flower bridge are poured, and forming is beginning for its top deck.
9/20/09 — Plywood forms are complete and rebar is underway for the new Flower Street rail bridge over the Harbor Freeway. Far right is the end of the existing Adams Boulevard bridge.
9/3/09 — Falsework for the new bridge is going up over the Harbor Freeway.
8/4/09 — The forms are up for the Flower Street bridge's center column in the Harbor Freeway.
7/3/09 — With footings complete the rebar cages for the Flower bridge's columns in the median of the Harbor freeway are starting upward.
6/9/09 — Drilling new CIDH (Cast in Drilled Hole) piles in the median of the Harbor Freeway for the new center columns.
5/17/09 — Center pier is gone, CIDH piles are in place for the north abutment, and about to begin for the south abutment.
3/2/09 — All gone except for the pier.
2/25/09 — More gone.
2/23/09 — Second night, looking like a scene from War of the Worlds (photos copyright Expo Authority).
2/22/09 — The eastern half of the Flower Street bridge over the Harbor Freeway (I-110) is being demolished, to rebuild the the bridge to support the Expo Line light rail tracks. The freeway was closed five nights after midnight. Above is after the first night's demolition.