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Park Place Boulevard and West Road bridges
15 photographs · two abandoned bridges
Two closed bridges once carried West Road into Park Place Boulevard. Fifteen photographs move from the barricaded southwest approach across the narrow wooden-rail bridge to the newer span hidden behind the trees.
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Past the barricade, an old bridge and its wooden rails remain in the trees.
15 photographs · two abandoned bridges
Cross the older bridge and continue to the newer span.
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The 2002 aerial and southwest barricade
The two bridges from above
Aerial views and the southwest approach
3 photographs
Aerial close-up of the two bridges
Wider aerial view of the bridges
Barricade at the southwest approach
Narrow pavement and wooden guardrails
The bridge beyond the barricade
Across the older bridge
9 photographs
Wooden guardrails on the old bridge
Across the older bridge
Tree growth at the bridge edge
Old wooden guardrail
Yellow curb beside the guardrail
East end of the older bridge
Looking southwest across the old bridge
Back toward the barricade
Park Place Boulevard beyond the barricade
A short island, a clearing and the Goodyear Plant
The newer bridge
Between the bridges and the newer span
3 photographs
From the original archive
How the two bridges were left behind
Created 08-May-2006 · Return to the photographs ↑
Park Place Blvd - West Rd Abandoned Bridges
The 2002 aerial photograph clearly shows the two bridges featured on this page. There is an old bridge at the lower left and a newer bridge in the center of the photo. Access to the bridge is cut off by a barricade at the tree line to the southwest and by a set of gates in fence of the Goodyear Plant. The older bridge features a narrow surface which is roughly 1 1/2 lanes wide by today's standards, and wooden guardrails. The newer bridge is consistant with modern construction techiques.
Park Place Blvd continues to the southwest. Old Galveston Road is just out of this view. West Road (Goodyear) is to the right