HISTORIC BRIDGE AWAITS ANCHORAGE REPLACEMENT

The last remaining suspension bridge across the Rio Grande--the 630 ft (192 m) Roma-Ciudad Miguel Aleman International Suspension Bridge--is in desperate need of repair, but funding for the restoration effort must be split between two countries. The U.S. Coast Guard has told officials in the United States and Mexico that the structure, which has been closed since 1978, must be repaired or demolished. Starr County, Texas, and Ciudad Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, Mexico, each own half of the bridge.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Publication Date: 2000-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 24
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 70
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost sharing; Costs; Financing; Government funding; Historic bridges; International; Maintenance; Repairing; Suspension bridges
• Geographic Terms: Ciudad Miguel alamen (Tamaulipas); Mexico; Rio Grande; Starr County (Texas); United States
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I10: Economics and Administration; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00790689
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 17 2000 12:00AM