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Sam Houston Tollway Ship Channel Bridge (formerly known as the Jesse H. Jones Memorial Bridge) is a span in Harris County, Texas. It was acquired from the then– Texas Turnpike Authority (TTA) (now North Texas Tollway Authority) on May 5, 1994, and is now a part of the Harris County Toll Road Authority system.
TX-46: Beveridge Bridge [a] Bypassed Suspension: 1896 1996 CR 112 San Saba River: San Saba: San Saba: TX-47: Sabine River Bridge Replaced 2015 [3] Steel built-up girder: 1936 1996 US 84: Sabine River: Joaquin, Texas, and Logansport, Louisiana
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.
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]
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Santiago Calatrava designed the bridge with a beautiful 400-foot arch with 58 steel cables strung across the structure.
Arch-Con Corporation was founded in 2000 in Houston, Texas by Michael Scheurich. [10] Arch-Con began in the Houston area, working on commercial projects near metropolitan areas. Its first project was an entrance for Continental Manufacturing in Houston in 2000, following by a hotel project for Americas Best Value Inn in 2001.
The Fred Hartman Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge [2] in the U.S. state of Texas spanning the Houston Ship Channel. The bridge carries 2.6 miles (4.2 km) of State Highway 146 (SH 146), between the cities of Baytown and La Porte [3] (east of Houston). The bridge is also expected to carry SH 99 (Grand Parkway) when it is completed around Houston. [4]
The “open spandrel concrete arch” is a representative design feature of bridges built during this period, and there were 23 such bridges in Texas still extant in 2007. [2] The bridge spans 325 feet and is in part supported by twenty-foot pilings. A fifty-foot roadbed is flanked by ten-foot cantilevered sidewalks. [1] The San Jacinto Street ...