Sycamore Street Bridge

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

... is almost open -- they were laying asphalt this morning.

In fact, because I had to move my car so that the road-construction equipment could get into position, I got to drive over it because it was the only practical way to get out. So I may have been the first "unofficial" vehicle over it. :-)

I don't know if they're going to have a ribbon-cutting ceremony or anything -- I expect I'll just come home one of these days and there won't be any barriers up. (You can already walk across it as of Friday.)

Comments

[denonymous.livejournal.com]

Do keep in mind that the Lowell St. bridge was open to foot traffic for, iirc, at least a year before it was open to vehicular traffic. That's pretty cool that you got to drive over it, though.

[ron_newman]

One thing that delayed the Lowell Street bridge project was everyone's insistence that it be open to pedestrians and bicyclists at all times during construction. This meant building a small temporary bridge for pedestrians before demolishing and rebuilding the real bridge.

The Walden Street bridge project in Cambridge has the same constraint.