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The Vincent Thomas Bridge is a 1,500-foot-long (460 m) suspension bridge, crossing Los Angeles Harbor in Los Angeles, California, linking San Pedro with Terminal Island. It is the only suspension bridge in the Greater Los Angeles area. The bridge is part of State Route 47, which is also known as the Seaside
San Pedro, Wilmington, and Terminal Island are the locations of the Port of Los Angeles. The Vincent Thomas Bridge is a 1,500-foot-long (457 m) suspension bridge linking San Pedro with Terminal Island and named after California Assemblyman Vincent Thomas. (It is the fourth longest suspension bridge in California.)
State Route 47 (SR 47) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California, connecting Terminal Island to the mainland in the Los Angeles area.From its south end at I-110 in San Pedro, it heads east across the Vincent Thomas Bridge to the island and the end of state maintenance.
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The island was originally called Isla Raza de Buena Gente [2] and later Rattlesnake Island. [3] It was renamed Terminal Island in 1891. [2]In 1909, the newly reincorporated Southern California Edison Company decided to build a new steam station to provide reserve capacity and emergency power for the entire Edison system and to enable Edison to shut down some of its small, obsolete steam plants.
Portions of Highway 47, including the Vincent Thomas Bridge, reopened Friday after a big rig containing lithium batteries crashed in San Pedro, sparking a fire.
Route 110 is defined as follows in the California Streets and Highways Code's section 410, subdivision (a): [4] Route 110 is from Route 47 in San Pedro to Glenarm Street in Pasadena. Following its renumbering from Route 11, Route 110 was originally defined as "from San Pedro to Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena." The conventional highway portions ...
Aug. 9—The San Pedro bridge over Interstate 40 was set to reopen Wednesday after debris carried by rainwater runoff smashed into a structural support in the drainage channel the day before.