US 90 Colorado River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Colorado River on US 90 in Columbus
- Location
- Columbus, Colorado County, Texas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1932 by the Austin Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Austin Bridge Co. of Dallas, Texas/Atlanta, Georgia
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 200.1 ft.
Total length: 766.1 ft.
Deck width: 22.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.9 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1996
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.70611, -96.53583 (decimal degrees)
29°42'22" N, 96°32'09" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/738398/3288762 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Columbus
- Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
- 3,400
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 96001111 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
TXNBI 130450002701001 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 33032 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of March 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 40.3 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- October 18, 2011: New Street View added by James McCray
- August 23, 2011: New Street View added by Luke Harden
- August 22, 2011: Added by aaron leibold
- August 10, 2009: Updated by C Hanchey: Added Bridge Builder
Sources
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- aaron leibold - aaron [dot] mightypenguin [at] gmail [dot] com
- Luke
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Todd Wilson
Comments
I checked and Section 106 does apply to this project. So it cannot be demolished without first considering feasible and prudent alternatives to demolition.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) has funded replacement of this bridge, apparently by ca 2016. It is deemed structurally inadequate and is inadequate for the existing traffic. It has no room for the existing two lane traffic and bicycle and/or pedestrian traffic.
The future of the existing bridge is unknown at this point. The options now appear to be: (1) Removal of the existing structure and replacement with bridge(s) with two lanes inbound and two lanes outbound. (2) As in (1), but with retention of the existing bridge as a hike and bike trail. (3) Retention of the existing bridge as two lanes either inbound or outbound with a hike and bike lane and construction of a new bridge for two inbound or outbound lanes.
Acquisition of funding for retention of the existing bridge will largely be the responsibility of the city of Columbus.
This listing duplicates http://bridgehunter.com/tx/colorado/bh49391/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/tx/colorado/130450002701001/
I wish I had your faith Nathan about reasonable and prudence in regard to Section 106. Mostly I see the opposite, how to get through the process in the least amount of time to get the outcome originally desired by paid staffers.