Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is one of three bridges designed by Santiago Calatrava for the Dallas area. It spans the Trinity River and connects the Woodall Rogers Freeway with Singleton Boulevard in West Dallas. Currently it is the only one of the three built.

Driving over the bridge towards Downtown Dallas

If you're a fan of Calatrava's work, then you'll love the bridge. If you really don't care one way or the other about architects, then you'll just wonder why this bridge, in this design, in the place in Dallas, and why it is seemingly going nowhere.

Look, up in the sky!
It's a bird! It's a plane!
No, it's a mass of cables reaching 400 feet into the sky!

I know, the whole idea behind this blog was to show Dallas from a pedestrian's point of view, since there are so many things you may miss if you're driving. Still, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is one of the new icons of Dallas and deserves a little feature.

The view from the West side. The power lines spoil some of the view.

The best views of the bridge are from the West end of town. You hardly see it once you're in downtown given how most of the buildings hide it from sight.