Shreveport Historic A-Truss Bridge

05/01/2026

Looking ahead, we are also focused on small ways we can continue to bring awareness to our project and highlight the bridge. The Bridge could be nominated for Louisiana’s Most Endangered Places List! The Committee is currently working on gathering information for a future nomination. This will be a great way to raise awareness and support.

We are also looking to build a sign near the bridge as well soon! Stay tuned for more information on that. Thankfully our engineering reports came in under budget so we are able to use those funds for more things to increase awareness to the bridge.

Since 1999, the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation has maintained the LOUISIANA’S MOST ENDANGERED PLACES LIST, & advocated to save these threatened sites.

04/30/2026

Completing the Inspection Report (thank you Huval and Associates, Inc.!!) was a great step into helping our team determine the feasibility of repairing and putting the bridge back into use. A key finding of the report was that there was a favorable feasibility for rehabilitating the A-Truss Bridge in its current location. The cost is estimated to potentially be around $4M, which allows us to look at next steps for the bridge.

We are currently looking at different grants we could submit to help fund bridge reconstruction, partnering with the City of Shreveport. We submitted a similar grant back in 2017 so we are looking for the next opportunities that come up!

04/28/2026

Following the momentum we built through our cleanup efforts, we received private support to undergo further evaluation of the bridge and what it would cost to rehabilitate. Through a competitive RFP process, the Committee interviewed four of the top engineering firms in the State to prepare a bridge evaluation report.

The Committee selected Huval and Associates, Inc. to prepare a bridge inspection report and a conceptual design report to determine the condition of the bridge and present concepts about how it could be rehabilitated.

04/27/2026

We're excited to share some progress with you guys that we've made recently. Check out our page over the next week to hear about where we've been, where we are, and what we are building to in the future.

To start, check out the photos from a cleanup from early 2024. Trees and brush along the south bank of Cross Bayou were removed, funded by a generous donation from the Alta and John Frank's foundation. We are so thankful for their support!

04/18/2026

04/18/2026

Check out this great post about the A-Truss bridge from Twin Blends: Northwest Louisiana History Hunters!

04/07/2026

Did you know that the A-Truss Bridge is mentioned in Northwest Louisiana Council of Governments' 2025 "Northwest Louisiana Safe Streets for All Action Plan"?

Putting this bridge back into use as a pedestrian/cyclist facility would allow users to bypass what is called the "High Injury Network" (HIN) - this vision is what we're building towards!

Stay tuned for more posts in the coming days outlining what we have been working on lately. You can check out NLCOG's action plan here:https://nlcog.org/pdfs/library/SS4A/20250217_NLCOG%20SS4A%20Plan%20Reduced%20Size.pdf

09/17/2025

Check out these photos from SPAR of the A-Truss Bridge! These photos were taken by summer intern Jackson Bain, an architecture student at Louisiana Tech University. It's perspective like this that encourages us to keep striving for ways to put this bridge back into use, partnering with the community while doing so.

11/09/2023

Members of the A-Truss Bridge Committee took a look at what all needs to be 'grubbed' around the bridge last week with Eric and Jackson of the Shreveport Aquarium. Eric had offered to bring out some volunteers to try to make a small dent in the overgrown brush and weeds to create a better view of the bridge from Spring Street. We took him up on that offer, and really appreciate the work that was done. Shreveport Aquarium volunteers were joined by those from Barksdale Air Force Base and Chimp Haven. Our thanks to all!

09/30/2023

Thanks to @ Twin Blends: Northwest Louisiana History Hunters for this!