LAPD's losing battle to control the new 6th Street Bridge

Los Angeles needed to replace the old 6th Street Bridge, an ugly but beloved local landmark that served as the gateway from DTLA to East Los Angeles' Boyle Heights. Earthquakes are real, and the old bridge could not be saved, or the city would undoubtedly have spent less money to retrofit and leave it there, but instead, there is a new giant bridge-as-public-space reinvention of the bridge in its place. — Read the rest