Re: Lost your home? Car? Everything? Thank a bicyclist and the California road diet.

On 1/14/2025 1:33 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:

 There are some of those in the US as well.  Here's a story on the
history of an ordinarily mysterious one, which I found entertaining:
 https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge

We had something very similar in our area. Until about ten years ago, thee was a bridge crossing I-680 at Donald Ave.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Si35exuT7VhwnVLc6
Apparently what is now Stambaugh Charter School on the map was once Stambaugh public school. The bridge over 680 was to allow students east of 680 to walk to the school. But ODOT tore the bridge down, I suppose because they felt the (minimal?) maintenance expense wasn't justified by the pedestrian or bicycle traffic.
I used that bridge on a club ride that I led long ago, one I called the Freeway Bridge Ride. We started at my area, south of Youngstown, and rode a route the crossed every bridge over the freeway out to where 680 left the city limits.
The idea came to me that freeways and surface streets are often parallel universes. When you're driving a city freeway, it's easy to lose track of which surface streets cross the freeway, or what neighborhoods you're passing through. It was an interesting ride.
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- Frank Krygowski