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Port Lavaca-based Bauer-Smith Dredging Company started construction on the first bridge in February 1949; the project was funded by $1.7 million in public bonds. [1] [2] The 4.5 mile [2] long raised roadway structure opened on 17 June 1950 as a toll road [1] and was originally called the North Padre Island Causeway; on 26 November 1963, Nueces County officials renamed it after President ...
East Park Avenue Bridge (LA 24 westbound) LA 3087 bridge; LA 316 bridge; Larose-Bourg Cutoff (manmade) West Larose Bridge ; Manmade canal LA 308 bridge; Bayou Barataria. LA 3134 bridge; Harvey Canal (manmade) Lapalco Boulevard Bridge; Harvey Tunnel and bridge (U.S. Highway 90 Business/Future I-49) Harvey Canal Bridge ; Mississippi River
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.
Early estimates indicate up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas ...
Opened in 1960, the Pelican Island Causeway Bridge was rated as “Poor” according to the Federal Highway Administration’s 2023 National Bridge Inventory released last June.
A driver live-streamed a police chase and standoff at I-35W at Loop 820 in Fort Worth on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024.
The "San Luis Pass-Vacek Toll Bridge" or San Luis Pass Bridge was built shortly before 1970. [12] It is operated by Galveston County, Road District 1. [13] This 1.3 mile bridge has two lanes [13] and has a toll fee of $2. Surfside Beach is the closest city on the other side of Galveston along Brazoria County Road 257.
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