Gateway to the Americas Bridge
Coordinates: 27 ° 29 ′ 58 ″ N , 99 ° 30 ′ 27 ″ W.
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | Rio Grande | |
| place | Laredo , Texas - Nuevo Laredo , Tamaulipas | |
| construction | Girder bridge | |
| overall length | 264 m | |
| width | 17 m | |
| completion | 1956 | |
| toll | toll | |
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The Gateway to the Americas Bridge spans the Rio Grande and connects the border towns of Laredo , Texas in the US and Nuevo Laredo , Tamaulipas in Mexico .
Name, location
Other unofficial names are Convent Street Bridge , Laredo International Bridge I , Bridge N ° 1 , Old Bridge ; Laredo-Nuevo Laredo Bridge 1 , Puente Nuevo Laredo , Puente Laredo I and Puente Viejo .
But it should not be confused with the Gateway International Bridge in Brownsville, Texas - Matamoros, Tamaulipas and the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso, Texas - Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
It stands in the city center on the site of the oldest bridge in Laredo. The Juárez-Lincoln Bridge, opened in 1976, is around 470 m further east . There is also a railway bridge upstream and the World Trade Bridge, which opened in 2000, around 11 km away, and the Laredo-Colombia Solidarity Bridge, which was completed in 1991, around 30 km from the city .
description
The road bridge has two lanes and wide sidewalks in both directions. The walkways are covered to protect them from the sun and have side sun protection. The specified length of 320 m includes the forecourt on both sides in front of customs clearance. The bridge between the abutments is 264 m long. The girder bridge has 9 parallel solid wall girders in the longitudinal direction . The US customs clearance buildings underwent major renovations in 2016 and 2017.
The bridge is open all the time and is subject to a toll - also for pedestrians .
history
An iron truss bridge built in the 1880s was destroyed in 1905 and again in 1932 by a flood caused by a hurricane . In 1932 a road bridge was built, which was again destroyed by a hurricane in 1954. The current bridge was opened in 1956.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Gateway to the Americas Bridge. In: Texas Department of Transportation: Texas-Mexico International Bridges and Border Crossings, existing and proposed, 2015 (PDS, 7 MB)
- ↑ a b Google Streetview
- ↑ Google Earth
- ↑ renovation of the US Customs building (English)
- ↑ Bridge Information
- ↑ Toll table