On April 5, 2012 at about 3:48 PM, officers from the Redding Police Department responded to vehicle vs. pedestrian traffic collision on the east bound lanes of the Cypress Street Bridge at the Sacramento River. Investigation revealed that Jamal Essayah, a 24 year old transient of the Redding area was hit by two vehicles whi

The City of Redding and its construction partners have been named one of three finalists in the California Transportation Foundation (CTF) annual awards program for the Cypress Avenue Bridge project. Completed in February 2011 after nearly four years of construction, the Cypress Avenue Bridge was nominated as the Structure

The Cypress Avenue Bridge has been named one of three finalists as the Structure Project of the Year in California.

A homeless man may have been beaten by two people Thursday afternoon under the Cypress Avenue Bridge in Redding.

A Redding man tried to trick officers into thinking he had a gun Wednesday morning so they would shoot him on the Cypress Bridge, police said.

A Redding man tried to trick police officers into thinking he had a gun this morning so they would shoot him on the Cypress Bridge, police said.

Search and rescue personnel were sent Wednesday to a stretch of the Sacramento River north of the Cypress Bridge after reports of an overturned canoe.

Search and rescue personnel were sent this afternoon to a stretch of the Sacramento River north of the Cypress Bridge after reports of an overturned canoe, but it turns out the boaters were just fine.

It’s doubtful that anybody in Redding has failed to notice, but the new Cypress Avenue Bridge is complete. just a few finishing touches are being done in preparation for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 24th. The project to replace Redding’s primary river-crossing began four years and 62-million

I'm pleased the Cypress Avenue Bridge has been widened and reopened with safe, separated pedestrian and bicycle lanes. But I'm even more thrilled that Park Marina Drive below the Cypress Bridge has finally reopened. Losing that route for years was a drag and it seemed like empires rose and fell during the time it was [...]

Those beautiful $1.5 million fluted green lanterns appearing on the new $70 million-plus span...I trust when they were bid out they came with some graffiti-proof finishing, like those stainless steel subway cars in NYC. They sure look like a tempting...

Park Marina Drive is open to through traffic beneath the Cypress Avenue bridge. Vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians are again able to continue along Park Marina Drive in the stretch between Parkview Avenue and Locust Street. The intersection of Locust and Park Marina is again a 2-way stop, as it was prior to the start of

Well, we're finally getting that auto mall some have coveted for years. No, they're not dusting off plans to revisit Churn Creek Bottom, nearly four years after Shasta County Supervisors narrowly defeated the proposed 107-acre, $110 million Shasta Regional Auto Mall at Knighton Road and Interstate 5. It w

Bruce memorializes Patrick Jones' rant about those fancy lanterns (see rendering below) on the new Cypress bridge (estimated cost: now $1.5 million). Blogged about this back in January (no doubt after a chat with Jones). Loved Mary Stegall's comment and...

Well, no. But the "aesthetic elements" soon to take shape on the new Cypress Bridge will more than rival Hilltop's palms in cost (see rendering below). Back in February 2007, before the economy collapsed, the city council approved eight glowing...

Traffic across the Cypress Avenue Bridge was closed in both directions Monday afternoon after a 100-foot tall crane collapsed onto the newly constructed north span about 1:45 p.m. No one was injured in the incident and