Highway 54 Bridge will soon be 54 years old

Friday, February 17, 2017

Fifty-four years ago, Nevada initiated some dramatic inner city business highway route changes. The new business highway paths for both U.S. Highways 71 and 54 were to enjoy new wide concrete roadways that bypassed the old railroad underpass on East Walnut Street. An arching overpass, part of a newly created East Austin Boulevard, would now carry four lanes of traffic over those same tracks. That now familiar bridge, like so many other aging public edifices in America, is approaching a vulnerable decline.

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