Diamondback Pedestrian Overpass

This is a multi-award-winning pedestrian bridge project that resembles a diamondback rattlesnake over Broadway Boulevard in Tucson. Local artist, Simon Donovan, came up with the design concept. The amazing structure is a 240-foot two-span cast-in-place, post-tensioned concrete box girder bridge with a steel cage in the shape of a diamondback rattlesnake, with eyes that light up at night, and a fiberglass rattle with a motion sensor that makes a rattling sound as pedestrians pass by. The project included lighting, landscaping, seat walls, multi-colored decorative concrete sidewalks, and appurtenances. Bicyclists and pedestrians actively use this unique bridge along the Barraza-Aviation Parkway.