sentences:  It was to be administrated by Théophile Seyrig, a disciple of Gustave Eiffel and author of the project.Seyrig had worked on the D. Maria bridge with Eiffel, hence the resemblance of his new bridge to the D. Maria bridge.Construction began on the Ponte Luís I alongside the towers of an earlier railway suspension bridge, the Ponte Pênsil, which was disassembled.