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Barton Creek Bridge is an early example of a cable stayed bridge; it spans Barton Creek in Huckabay, Texas. Built 1890 by Runyon Bridge Company , it was bypassed and abandoned in the 1930s and now lies in ruins. [ 1 ]
Old Alton Bridge, also known as Goatman's Bridge, is a historic iron truss bridge connecting the Texas cities of Denton and Copper Canyon. Built in 1884 by the King Iron Bridge Manufacturing Company , it originally carried horses and later automobiles over Hickory Creek at a location that once was a popular ford for crossing cattle.
The Baytown Tunnel or Baytown – La Porte Tunnel was a two-lane underwater motor-vehicle tunnel connecting Baytown and La Porte, two suburbs of Houston, Texas.Completed in 1953, [1] it traveled northeast-southwest underneath the Houston Ship Channel and had a length of 4,110 feet (1,250 m). [2]
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.
Texas Suspension Bridges Cable-stayed and Suspension: 2000 Austin: Travis: TX-98-A: Texas Suspension Bridges, Dr. Flinn's Model and Builders Plate Suspension: 2000 Austin: Travis: TX-99: South Presa Street Bridge Extant Lenticular truss: 2001 South Presa Street San Antonio River: San Antonio: Bexar
The Yancopin Bridge is an abandoned ... including the addition of a swing span sometime after World War II as the navigable channel ... chemical trains from the Texas ...
The Texas Department of Transportation had been scheduled in the summer of 2025 to begin construction on a project to replace the bridge with a new one. The project was estimated to cost $194 million.
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.