Group fighting to get old truss bridge in Bastrop County repaired

BASTROP COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — The Lower Elgin Road Bridge in Bastrop County has clearly seen better days.
It sits ravaged by the Memorial Day floods of 2015. Before that, it served as a pedestrian walkway. Before that, it was the only way for farmers and others in their cars or on their horse and buggy to cross Wilbarger Creek
Today it’s mangled, rusted and a safety hazard.
“It’s just shameful that it’s been allowed to deteriorate to this point,” says Ernie N