Reminders: Durival Britto is the name of the stadium of the Paran Club, inherited of the HERE Railroad one; RVPSC is the acronym of ' ' Net of Paran Means of transportation Santa Catarina ' '. Neighbor to the Bridge meets another construction historical: the building Engineer Teixeira Soares, who also was patrimony of the RVPSC, after the RFFSA until being donated to the UFPR. Dimensions? Therefore not. The bridge has 32,8m of total length, being 21,2m in they go central and 5,8m in the vain laterals. In the distance between the main beams (stringers) it is of 5m. The beams have changeable height: 2,52m in the supports and 1,52m in the center of go. How much to the height Da Ponte, originally it was of 4,5m, but the successive layers of asphalt layer that are placed in the street had diminished for 3,6m what cause many accidents, therefore higher trucks whose drivers do not give attention in the signalling finish ' ' entalados' ' under the bridge.

These accidents have provoked long debates between that they are the favor and against a rise Da Ponte. The favorable ones argue that only thus it will be possible to prevent the routine accidents. contrary exactly allege that this rise Da Ponte will modify its pioneering structure, it whom it deserves to be preserved. still has the ones that defend the pure one and simple removed of the structure that binds to nothing the thing none what evidently he is discarded. As the bridge is currently without maintenance, rusted, pichada, with the dormentes rotten and reached by as many trucks, has a project of restoration, foreseen to be carried through in 2012, which foresees, beyond a complete revitalizao, with maintenance of its historical characteristics, the reinforcement in the transit signalling, the installation of height sensors and the withdrawal of the asphalt layer of this stretch of the Street Negro Joo, coming back to parallelopipeds what, beyond increasing the height of they go Da Ponte, will diminish the speed of the vehicles.