6th Street Viaduct
The Sixth Street Viaduct was designed by architect Michael Maltzan and the HNTB Design-Build team to be a landmark to replace a landmark in Los Angeles. Opening on July 9, 2022, it replaced an irreparably deteriorating 1932 vintage overpass, shaped by the City Beautiful movement and completed in time for LA’s first Olympic Games. The Viaduct spans the Los Angeles River, the Santa Ana Freeway (US 101), the Golden State Freeway (I-5), Metrolink (Orange County and 91 lines), Amtrak (Pacific Surfliner and Southwest Chief), and Union Pacific railroad tracks and several local streets. Ten concrete arches of varying heights loop up and down on either side of the entire 3500-foot roadbed. Unlike the 1932 viaduct, this 100-foot wide roadway is multimodal with broad protected outer lanes on either side for pedestrians, and another in each direction for cyclists.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
Photographer: John Bare