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Last Link Now In Place For Second Calatrava Bridge

Rick Holter
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KERA News

The last link in the second Calatrava bridge arch on I-30 over the Trinity River has been dropped in.

The Margaret McDermott Bridge was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava-- as was the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, completed in 2012.

The arches were constructed in Tampa, Florida, and shipped in pieces to Dallas.

The 15-lane bridge will also have bicycle and pedestrian lanes. It’s expected to be finished by next summer.

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.