AUSTIN -- Southbound MoPac Expressway between Parmer Lane and Braker Lane will close starting 8 p.m. Thursday as crews install the first piece of a 525-foot-long bicycle and pedestrian bridge.
The bridge will be installed over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks south of Duval Road. After the bridge part gets to the location, MoPac will reopen but the center and right lanes will remain closed as crews lift the bridge into place.
The bridge is part of a path that will run down the southbound MoPac frontage road from the Walnut Creek Trail to Capital of Texas Highway near the Arboretum.
Two more sections of the bridge will be installed in coming weeks.
