Antioch Bridge
The Antioch Bridge (officially the Senator John A. Nejedly Bridge) is an automobile, bicycle, and pedestrian bridge in the western United States. Located in northern California, it crosses the San Joaquin River-Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel, linking Antioch in Contra Costa County with Sherman Island in southern Sacramento County, near Rio Vista.
Antioch Bridge | |
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View from southwest in 2014 | |
| Coordinates | 38.0244°N 121.7506°W |
| Carries | 2 lanes of SR 160, bicycles and pedestrians |
| Crosses | San Joaquin River |
| Locale | Antioch, California, and Sacramento County, California, U.S. |
| Official name | Senator John A. Nejedly Bridge |
| Owner | State of California |
| Maintained by | California Department of Transportation and the Bay Area Toll Authority |
| ID number | NBI 28 0009 |
| Website | www |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | steel plate girder |
| Total length | 9,504 feet (1.800 mi; 2.897 km) |
| Width | 38.1 feet (11.6 m) |
| Longest span | 460 feet (140 m) |
| Clearance below | 135 feet (41 m) |
| History | |
| Opened | December 1978 |
| Replaces | 1926 lift bridge |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 13,600 (2009) |
| Toll |
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Named after state senator John Nejedly, the bridge is signed as part of State Route 160. Unlike other toll bridges in California, it has only a single lane of traffic for each direction. It is one of several bridges in the Bay area that are traversable by pedestrians and bicyclists in addition to automobiles. The current bridge was completed 46 years ago in 1978, is 1.8 miles (2.9 km) in length, and opened to traffic that December.