Centerway Bridge was completed in 1921 to relieve growing automotive and streetcar traffic on Bridge Street Bridge, Corning’s only other river crossing in the early 20th century. The proposal was so controversial that city voters decided it in a 1920 referendum that passed by a 2–1 margin, and in return for approval the Houghton family gave the city 100 acres on the Northside that became the Houghton Plot residential district. Designed by New York City concrete bridge engineer Abraham Burton Cohen (1882-1956), the earth-filled structure has seven arched spans and six piers. High water and a fire in the construction area complicated the work, but the bridge was finished in the fall of 1921 and paved the following spring. Over the next six decades, wind, rain, snow, ice, floods, and increasing traffic caused deterioration until it became obsolete for 20th century traffic and was scheduled for demolition in the spring of 1980. Demolition plans proved as controversial as its construction, and before it could be torn down hundreds of people gathered on the bridge in support of preserving the landmark. The Save Our Bridge campaign succeeded, and after extensive renovation the bridge reopened in 1986 for pedestrians, bicyclists, and double-decker buses carrying tourists between the Corning Museum of Glass and the Market Street Historic District. A maze painted on the roadway became popular with children, tourist bus use eventually ended, and another major renovation begun in 2012 and completed in 2013 created the bridgescape of today.