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October 10, 1996 (Rainbow Bridge) The Rainbow Bridge and Veterans Memorial Bridge are two bridges that cross the Neches River in Southeast Texas just upstream from Sabine Lake. It allows State Highway 87 and State Highway 73 to connect Port Arthur in Jefferson County on the southwest bank of the river. Bridge City in Orange County is on the ...
The ten highest bridges in the United States: Royal Gorge Bridge —955'. Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge —900'. New River Gorge Bridge —876'. Foresthill Bridge —730'. Glen Canyon Dam Bridge —700'. Phil G. McDonald Bridge —700'. Rio Grande Gorge Bridge —565'.
Pennybacker Bridge. The Percy V. Pennybacker Jr. Bridge in Austin, Texas, is a through-arch bridge across Lake Austin which connects the northern and southern sections of the Loop 360 highway, also known as the "Capital of Texas Highway." Due to its arched weathering-steel bridge and the rolling hills on its northern side, this structure is ...
The High Five Interchange, north of downtown in Dallas, Texas, is a massive five-level freeway interchange. It is the junction of two major highways carrying heavy rush-hour traffic, the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway (I-635) and the Central Expressway (US 75), and is the first five-level stack interchange to be built in the city. [4]
The bridge sustains the continuation of Texas Park Road 100 and is the only road connecting South Padre Island to mainland Texas. Stretching 2.37 miles (3.81 km) across the Laguna Madre, the causeway is the second-longest bridge in Texas, after the Fred Hartman Bridge over the Houston Ship Channel. [2] It is named after Queen Isabella of Castile.
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 in Orange County, Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas and Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge in Erath ...
The second (current) Pecos River High Bridge, was completed by the Southern Pacific Railroad on December 8, 1944. [1] The current Pecos River High Bridge is a steel deck truss bridge on slip-formed concrete piers, ranging in height up to 275 feet (84 m). It was designed by Modjeski and Masters of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with foundations ...
Notes. ^ The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge held the record of the longest bridge span in the world from 1964 to 1981.[1] ^ At the time of its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world,[4] titles it held until 1964 and 1998 respectively.