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La Linda International Bridge (also known as the Gerstaker Bridge, Hallie Stillwell Memorial Bridge, Big Bend Crossing Bridge, Puente La Linda, and Heath Crossing [2] [1] is an international bridge which crosses the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) on the United States–Mexico border in the Big Bend region of Texas.
It is popularly called the "Old Bridge" (Spanish: Puente Viejo) because its original incarnation, still standing, is the city's oldest international bridge. In 1999, Texas state Historical marker 11778 was placed at the site by the Texas Historical Commission and the Cameron County Historical Commission to recognize the bridge's historical ...
El Paso, Texas: McNutt Road Bridge: El Paso, Texas and Sunland Park, New Mexico: Racetrack Drive Bridge: Sunland Park, New Mexico: Country Club Road Bridge: El Paso, Texas and Sunland Park, New Mexico: Highway 178 Bridge State Highway 178: El Paso, Texas: La Union Street Bridge: La Union Street Canutillo, Texas: Vinton Road Bridge Vinton Road ...
The bridge is also expected to carry SH 99 (Grand Parkway) when it is completed around Houston. [4] The bridge, named for Fred Hartman (1908–1991), the editor and publisher of the Baytown Sun from 1950 to 1974, is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Texas and one of only four such bridges in the state, the others being Veterans Memorial Bridge ...
The bridge is owned and operated by Cameron County. The bridge commenced operation on April 30, 1999. [3] The bridge unites the Matamoros–Brownsville Metropolitan Area, which has a population of 1,136,995, [4] making it the 4th largest metropolitan area on the Mexico-U.S. border. [5]
The bridge is over three miles long and cost over $28 million to build. [1] It was designed to divert traffic from the congested Hidalgo Texas Port of Entry . The presidential permit under which the bridge was constructed prohibited commercial traffic from using it until 2015, or when the Hidalgo Port of Entry averages more than 15,000 ...
Weeks before the recent state takeover of the park, the group planted hundreds of crosses in a field there as a memorial to the people believed to have perished along the US-Mexico border in 2023.
The Sidney Sherman Bridge is a strutted girder bridge in Houston, Texas. It spans the Houston Ship Channel (Buffalo Bayou) and carries the East Loop segment of Interstate 610 on the east side of the city. It is more popularly known as the 610 Bridge or Ship Channel Bridge.