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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.
Clarke Bayou Bridge Extant Box culvert: 1926 2016 US 79 / US 80 westbound Clarke Bayou Fillmore: Bossier: LA-29: Bayou Teche Bridge Extant Rolling lift (Scherzer) bascule: 1940 2016 LA 86 (Bridge Street) Bayou Teche: New Iberia: Iberia
The McKee Street Bridge carries McKee Street across Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas. Built in 1932, the three-span reinforced concrete girder bridge connects the Second and Fifth Ward areas, northeast of downtown Houston. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 3, 2002. [2]
In 1979, a new bridge running diagonally across Bayou Blue on the Bourg-Larose Highway eliminated a zigzag at that point, straightening the roadway. [24] [25] In Houma, the two high-level bridges crossing the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway were constructed in 1996, replacing two grade-level movable bridges at the same location. [26] [27] [28]
The Rigolets is spanned by two bridges. The western terminus of the U.S. Route 90 Rigolets Bridge is located immediately north of Fort Pike. It was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and required major repairs. [7] Farther south, CSX Transportation crosses the Rigolets on a 1,388-meter (4,555-ft) railroad bridge. [8]
The Sarto Bridge is a swing truss bridge built in 1916 over the Bayou Des Glaises at Big Bend in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It is also known as the Sarto Old Iron Bridge. [2] It was the first bridge in Louisiana to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places, [3] which occurred in 1989. [1]
The Kansas City Southern Railroad Bridge (Cross Bayou), in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana, is an "A" Truss bridge erected in its current location in 1926 and abandoned in the 1980s. Due to its national significance to the progress of American bridge design, and its rarity as one of only two known surviving examples, the structure was designated ...
The Galliano Pontoon Bridge crosses Bayou Lafourche in the town of Galliano, Louisiana. Built in 1956, and rehabilitated in 2009, this pontoon swing bridge has a total length of 136.2 feet with its largest span at 71.9 feet. The bridge deck is 24.9 feet wide. [1] The bridge was shortly closed and reopened in 2023. [2]