Almost two years ago, the bridge I bike over twice a day suddenly closed. Its structural integrity had been questioned; the bridge deck is held up by steel hangers, and these apparently needed to be replaced. And that is a sizable job! Soon that work started. And that meant traffic lights, as only one lane of the bridge would be open to traffic. Not an enormous deal, but inconvenient. And I had no clue how long it would take.
What happened was that all hangers were festooned with auxiliary steel cables, and fences were put up between the pedestrian path on the outside, and the lanes for cars and such. The steel cables would only come off when the hanger was replaced.
Recently I started to notice the fences starting to come down. And now the entire eastern side of the bridge has both been cleared of auxiliary cables and of fences. And the northern part of the western side too. Would work be coming to an end? I hope so! It would be great if traffic could just flow over that bridge unimpeded again…
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Notice fences and auxiliary cables only on the other side!
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