| The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) - Corpus
Christi District has begun the next phase of its Harbor Bridge project
. According to the recommendations of a Feasibility Study that TxDOT completed
in 2003, the nearly 50-year-old Harbor Bridge is reaching the end of its
useful life. A steel bridge over salt water, Harbor Bridge will need increasing
amounts of costly maintenance as it ages. A new bridge would allow TxDOT
to improve safety, thereby reducing accident rates; provide better opportunities
for moving people and goods (including military equipment and Port assets)
throughout the region; provide adequate capacity to meet future traffic
demand; and provide greater economic development opportunities for the
Port of Corpus Christi. |