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The Trinity River covers parts of Sylvan Avenue inside the levees on the west side of the Trinity River in September 2010.
The stretch of Sylvan Avenue that crosses the Trinity River will close Saturday as the Texas Department of Transportation begins in earnest the months-long process of building a bridge over the occasionally flooded bottomlands.
That means drivers will have to detour across the Margaret Hunt Hill or Hampton Road bridges to get from the Stemmons Corridor to West Dallas until the $42.3 million project is finished in spring 2014.
And as my colleague — and frequent Ticket contributor — Robert Wilonsky pointed out last month, that also means that Trammell Crow Park and its famous cow statues will be out of commission for awhile.
Anyone catching one last ride today across Sylvan — deemed by the city as “the last of the Dallas streets low water crossings — will notice there’s already huge pilings in place that give a pretty good sense of the new bridge’s height.
TxDOT and the city added that the rebuilt bridge, which will be continuous over the Trinity’s levees, will help provide more consistent traffic through the area “without the threat of floodwaters closing the road.”
Check out the jump for a PDF that shows the detours.
