Douglas Street Bridge, Omaha, Nebraska

The Douglas Street Bridge was built by the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company in 1888 and was designed to handle streetcars. It was also the first road bridge to cross the Missouri River connecting Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa, and tolls were collected from automobiles. The tolls became increasingly unpopular and resentment about them led a group of businessmen to form the "Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben" (Nebraska spelled backwards) to buy the bridge with the intention of making it toll-free. Tolls continued until September 1947 when the bridge along with the South Omaha Bridge became toll-free.

It was replaced in November 1966 with an unnamed Interstate-480 girder bridge.  Attempts were made to salvage the old bridge as a pedestrian walkway but it was demolished in 1968. The east pier remains in the river just south of the new bridge on the Council Bluffs side.  The streetcars ended in 1952.