Texas Street Bridge

A steel cantilever span crosses the Red River on the strength of its 1933 engineering, joining downtown Shreveport to Bossier City. Named for Governors Huey Long and Oscar Allen, it's also called the Long-Allen Bridge — a mark of the political machinery that built Louisiana's public works in the Depression. The structure is walkable, and the pedestrian crossing offers unobstructed views of the Red River below and both downtowns at either end. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it remains a working bridge, holding the weight of through traffic and foot traffic alike. If you want to feel how two cities became one urban fabric, walk it.