TX 71 Business Colorado River Bridge

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Photo taken by C Hanchey in August 2009

BH Photo #145379

Overview: Through truss bridge over Colorado River on TX 71 Business in La Grange
Location: La Grange, Fayette County, Texas
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1941 by the Austin Bridge Co.
Builder: - Austin Bridge Co. of Dallas, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia
Design: Five Parker through truss spans and eight steel I-beam approach spans
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 200.1 ft.
Total length: 1,414.1 ft.
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.9 ft.
Recognition: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1996
Approximate latitude, longitude: +29.90083, -96.88694 (decimal degrees)
29°54'03" N, 96°53'13" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 14/704025/3309672 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: La Grange West
Inventory numbers: NRHP 96001120 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
TXNBI 130760026514038 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 33016 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 04/2015): Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 51.3 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2013): 8,770