TxDOT’s Rio Hondo Bridge Reopens Ahead of Schedule

July 17, 2018

The TxDOT Rio Hondo Bridge reopened last Friday to the delight of the community that uses the historic vertical lift bridge. The bridge is a 145-foot lift span thru-plate girder with transverse floor beams and stringers supporting a steel grid deck, with two 50-foot steel beam approach spans on either side.

The H&H team led the design, construction support and developed a maintenance manual for TXDOT. The improvements included numerous structural repairs to the movable bridge structure and bridge towers, a new electrical power and control system, and machinery rehabilitation.

The bridge reopened ahead of schedule.

Congratulations to all who worked on this project.