The Portsmouth Square pedestrian bridge is a prominent architectural landmark in Chinatown, San Francisco that spans over Kearny Street from Portsmouth Square to the second floor and third floor of the Hilton San Francisco Financial District hotel, which houses the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco.[1][2]
While the bridge is ostensibly meant for pedestrian access to cross the road to the Chinese Culture Center, surveys show that it is rarely used as such,[3] and it gets denigrated by some residents as a "bridge to nowhere."[4] Nevertheless, its brutalist architectural elements and banked sides have made it an attractive space for street skateboarders, from whom it has seen continuous use since the late 1970s, and has been a mainstay in skate media. Skateboarders colloquially call it China Banks.[5][6][7] It is also used as a public and private community space.
The bridge is currently under consideration for being demolished as part of a complete redesign of Portsmouth Square.
^"Bridge Project to Put Chinatown on the Public Art Map". KQED. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
^"Questions Surround Fate of Pedestrian Footbridge in SF's Chinatown". 21 April 2022.
^Existing conditions report San Francisco Planning Department and San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2022
^Whiting, Sam (27 September 2021). "Demolishing a 'bridge to nowhere' is first step in $66 million redesign of S.F.'s Chinatown park". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
^"Dazzling Sky Bridge Transforms Chinatown Pedestrian Bridge". KQED. 11 August 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
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