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Surface elevation. 428 ft (130 m) Lady Bird Lake (formerly, and still colloquially referred to as Town Lake) is a river-like reservoir on the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, United States. The City of Austin created the reservoir in 1960 as a cooling pond for a new city power plant. The lake, which has a surface area of 416 acres (168 ha), is ...
The Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge (formerly known simply as the Congress Avenue Bridge) crosses over Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. Before construction of the Longhorn Dam was completed in 1960, the bridge crossed the Colorado River from which Lady Bird Lake is impounded. The bridge was known as the Congress Avenue Bridge from the ...
The Lamar Boulevard Bridge is a historic arch bridge carrying Texas State Highway Loop 343 (Lamar Boulevard) over Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin, Texas, United States. The bridge features six open- spandrel concrete arches spanning 659 feet (201 m) and carries tens of thousands of vehicles daily across the lake. [ 1 ]
A map shared by the city of Austin on Monday, June 24, 2024, shows detours and changes to roads during the construction of a pedestrian bridge over Lady Bird Lake that will begin July 1.
A New York-based developer wants to build a mixed-use project at South Congress Avenue and West Riverside Drive. Its plans call for 800 housing units, a 225-room hotel and office, restaurant ...
Congress Avenue south of Lady Bird Lake is known as South Congress, often abbreviated to SoCo, [2] and is an increasingly popular shopping and rental district. It passes the historic Travis Heights neighborhood, the Texas School for the Deaf, and St. Edward's University as it passes south out of town.
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15 May 2000. Opened. 16 June 2001. ( 2001-06-16) Location. The James D. Pfluger Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge is a shared use bridge for pedestrians and cyclists spanning Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin, Texas. Opened in 2001, the bridge connects the north and south sides of the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail and features an unusual ...