The Corpus Christi City Council approved an agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation that will fund most of a $13.6 million project to convert a train trestle into a pedestrian bridge.

Ninety feet below the East River, Amtrak’s 110 year-old train tunnels are slowly filling with salty water dripping on high-voltage cables as steel is nearly corroded to dust.

Transforming a deserted train trestle into a pedestrian bridge over Oso Bay is nearing the start of design work.. The Corpus Christi City Council on April 15 approved an agreement with the Texas ...