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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 current bridge opened in 1974, replacing a previous bridge that had also been named Queen Isabella Causeway.
Recovery efforts continue on Sept. 18, 2001, at the Queen Isabella Causeway between Port Isabel and South Padre Island in South Texas. A group of barges hit the bridge in the early morning hours ...
The city was named Port Isabel in 1928, and in 1954, the Queen Isabella Causeway, the longest bridge in Texas, was constructed across Laguna Madre to South Padre Island. A newer bridge was built in 1974, [ 6 ] but part of it collapsed on September 15, 2001, after being hit by a barge, causing eight people to plunge to their deaths and ...
Port Isabel connects with South Padre Island via the Queen Isabella Causeway. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates the Port Isabel Service Processing Center, which is located in an unincorporated area adjacent to Port Isabel-Cameron County Airport, 12 miles (19 km) to the northwest of the center of Port Isabel. [29]
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Sep. 15—PORT ISABEL — Time may have dulled some of the pain from the deaths of eight people killed in the Sept. 15 partial collapse of the Queen Isabella Causeway in 2001. But residents and ...
Queen Isabella Causeway [1] Manmade canal; Laguna Madre; Manmade canal; Baffin Bay; Manmade canal John F. Kennedy Memorial Causeway ; Corpus Christi Bay;
In 2001, a tugboat and barge struck the Queen Isabella Causeway in Port Isabel, Texas, causing a section of the bridge to tumble 80 feet (24 meters) into the bay below. Eight people were killed.