Montopolis Bridge
The Montopolis Bridge is a historic steel bridge in Austin, Texas, that crosses the Colorado River. It carries a bicycle and pedestrian path and was once part of the south side of US 183 (Airport Boulevard). The bridge sits in the Montopolis neighborhood in southeastern Travis County and is part of the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail.
After a flood in 1935 washed away the original bridge, the Texas Highway Department designed a new one and used federal relief funds to rebuild it. Construction began on February 15, 1937, and the bridge opened on February 11, 1938. It was built by Vincennes Steel Corporation for about $232,000. The structure features five 200-foot Parker through-truss spans with four 52-foot approach spans, totaling about 1,221 feet in length and 24 feet in width, with two lanes.
The Montopolis Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1996. It handled substantial traffic, including about 29,200 vehicles per day in 2006, and served as a key route to Austin–Bergstrom International Airport from downtown.
On October 8, 2018, the bridge stopped carrying vehicles and was converted to a bicycle and pedestrian bridge as part of the Bergstrom Expressway Project. It remains a historic landmark and now serves walkers and cyclists.
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