If you've ever driven out of Hong Kong to the Airport or Taken the Ferry from Hong Kong to Macau or the Mainland, you've seen those Single Pillar bridges. Very nice, interesting design, large openings for many ships.
Contrasted to such atrocities as the Pulaski Skyway(Newark NJ) or something equally aweful like the Goethals Bridge(NJ to Staten Island), you'd be inclined to agree with the Chernobyl description.
That said, with the state of the state in CA, they should build it out of cheapest possible materials, appearance be damned.
they should build it to be functional, safe, and earthquake-proof. If you'd seen the sections of bridges felled and the many overpasses damaged beyond repair during the World Series quake, you'd rethink the meaning of cheap.