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Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

Photos 

Deck view looking East from point near cable anchor

Photo taken by Dan Crawford in January 2012

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BH Photo #224065

Street Views 

Description 

First of 3 new City of Dallas "signature" bridges over the Trinity River.

Cable-stayed bridge (harp style)-- 400 ft high arched pylon with 58 cables attached to center spine of bridge. 3 lanes of traffic each way. Concrete deck approach spans.

Facts 

Overview
Cable-stayed bridge over Trinity River on Singleton Blvd / Woodall Rodgers Fwy
Location
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 2012
Builder
- Santiago Calatrava of Benimàmet, Valencia, Spain (Designer)
Design
Cable-stayed
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 1,197.0 ft.
Total length: 1,870.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+32.78004, -96.82264   (decimal degrees)
32°46'48" N, 96°49'22" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/703923/3629001 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Dallas
Inventory number
BH 51125 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log 

  • February 21, 2022: New photos from Bambi Sharkoman
  • February 17, 2022: New photos from Bambi Sharkoman
  • February 15, 2022: New photo from Bambi Sharkoman
  • February 9, 2022: New photos from Bambi Sharkoman
  • June 20, 2018: New photos from tim allman
  • January 12, 2018: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
  • November 4, 2015: New photo from Albert Johnston
  • August 23, 2014: New Street View added by Ralph Demars
  • October 10, 2013: Photo imported by Luke Harden
  • January 24, 2013: Updated by Andy Peters: edits category for Santiago Calatrava
  • February 19, 2012: New photo from Dan Crawford
  • January 29, 2012: Added by Dan Crawford

Sources 

  • Wikipedia
  • Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Andy Peters - anpete1971 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Albert Johnston - asjohnston3 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Dana and Kay Klein
  • tim allman - wcswngdncr [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Jesse Sharkoman Berube - jesseberube5 [at] gmail [dot] com

Comments 

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Posted June 30, 2017, by Brad Smith (gaberdine [at] hotmail [dot] com)

I pasted this originally in December of 2014, deleted the original today, and reposted an edited version.

As I understand it, this bridge is just a concrete deck bridge with DECORATIVE cable arrays. TXDOT did that to cut costs.

Back then, I felt like neither of the others would be built with Calatrava effects. The Calatrava effects on 3rd one was cancelled. The second one IS PURELY decorative and scaled back.

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Posted October 30, 2014, by Nathan Holth (webmaster [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

While I will admit that the main span of this bridge is intriguing with its unusual cable arrangement, at the same time this bridge demonstrates what is wrong with modern bridge aesthetics (in the rare cases where modern bridges have aesthetics at all). Take a look at the approach spans. While an effort was made to make the main span look interesting, the approach spans couldn't have been made more plain and ugly if you tried. The piers are like what we use in Michigan for freeway overpasses and the approach spans appear to be some sort of pre-stressed box beam or girder, I can't tell.

Compare this bridge to something like the St. Johns Bridge in Oregon to see a truly aesthetic bridge. From the base of the anchorage to the tip of the tower, and from abutment to abutment the St. Johns Bridge has evidence of painstaking effort to provide an aesthetically pleasing bridge.

The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge would have looked a lot nicer with say concrete deck arch approach spans.