Antioch Bridge

The Antioch Bridge is an automobile, bicycle, and pedestrian bridge that crosses the San Joaquin River linking Antioch, California with Sherman Island in southern Sacramento County, California, near the city of Isleton, California in the United States. Named after California State Senator John A. Nejedly, the bridge is signed as part of State Route 160. Unlike other toll bridges in California, the Antioch bridge has only a single lane of traffic for each direction.HistoryThe current bridge was completed and opened to traffic in December 1978. It is 1.8mi long.1926 toll bridgeThe original structure was completed in 1926 by the American Toll Bridge Company, who went on to build the original span of the Carquinez Bridge. The bridge was opened on as a connecting link on the coast-to-coast Victory Highway. Hanford and Klatt, officials with the Rodeo-Vallejo Ferry Company, had organized the American Toll Bridge Company in 1923, which built the bridge at a cost of greater than 2000000.The Delta Bridge corporation had formed in December 1922, but did not complete a bridge at Antioch. Delta Bridge had received a franchise to build in June 1923.The 1926 bridge featured two spans each long which provided a clearance of below when opened. The original lift span bridge was plagued with problems throughout its lifetime. Heavy traffic could cross it at no more than 15mph, and its narrow shipping channel led to collisions with freighters in 1958, 1963 and 1970.