Continental Avenue Bridge, Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, Old Railroad Trestle next to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and the Houston Street Viaduc

First opened in March 2012, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge connects Downtown and West Dallas across the Trinity River Corridor. Designed by internationally renowned architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava, the iconic white bridge features a signature 400-foot center arch that artfully changed the Dallas skyline. Connecting Woodall Rodgers Freeway seamlessly to Singleton Boulevard in West Dallas, the bridge has spurred economic development in West Dallas and helped bring people down to the river while fostering unity across the geographic north and south divide in the city. Parallel to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge across the Trinity River, the Continental Avenue Bridge is a pedestrian bridge that replaced the former Lamar-McKinney Viaduct, which was built in 1933 to carry cars along the swelling Trinity River to West Dallas 20 years after a 1908 flood drowned most of the area. The reimagined Continental Avenue Bridge opened in June 2014 with a playground, a splash park, lounge chairs, human-sized chess boards and a ceiling of cloth to provides shade for the area while providing easier access to the many trails surrounding the bridge in the Trinity River Basin and on the levees. Built in 1910 after the devastating flood of 1908 separated Dallas from Oak Cliff for weeks, the Houston Street Viaduct was designed by Ira Hedrick using a truss and arch design like a Roman aqueduct from locally available concrete mixed onsite with water from the Trinity River and gravel from pockets of alluvial soil in West Dallas and around Fair Park. The bridge has more than 50 arches, one of which is wider than the rest at 95 feet, which was designed for boat and barge traffic.

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