- City:
- Houston, TX
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1936
- Designer:
- Texas Highway Department
- Contractor:
- Russ Mitchell Inc.
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1936, the Texas Highway Department and the United States Bureau of Public Roads built an underpass to separate the grade of Wayside Drive and the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad (now Union Pacific).
Source notes
Information listed on plaque on bridgeSite originally submitted by Larry Moore on July 20, 2016.
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