The Roy B. Inks Bridge, named for a former mayor of Llano, was built in 1936 to carry State Highway 29, now State Highway 16, over the Llano River. It replaced an 1892 truss bridge at this location that had been swept away by a 42-foot flood crest on June 14, 1935, and emergency relief funding from the Hayden-Cartwright Act supported replacement of this and other bridges lost in the catastrophic flooding of 1935. Designed by the Texas Highway Department's Bridge Division during the fall of 1935, the bridge consists of four 200-foot Parker truss spans resting on concrete cutwater piers. The construction contract was awarded to the Austin Bridge Company in January 1936, and the bridge opened to traffic on September 16, 1936. It retains the original west side pedestrian walkway with lattice railings and all-riveted construction typical of the 1930s, and in 2006 the Texas Department of Transportation added a new, wider pedestrian walkway on the east side during a rehabilitation project.