Oh no. 😬

“The governor’s office didn’t have any design renderings available when we first reported their plans. That absence became a blank canvas in our newsroom. What could it become?

While we wait for a plan, we thought we’d float some (mostly silly) ideas of our own.”

🤣🤣🤣

#Denver #Colorado #PedestrianBridges #Humor #UrbanPlanning #Mobility

https://denverite.com/2024/12/02/denver-civic-center-capitol-pedestrian-bridge-broadway-lincoln-design/

2015 – Lagan Weir Footbridge, Belfast, Co. Antrim
Architect: AECOM Architects

Designed to encourage sustainable modes of transport and provide greater access to the heart of the city, the bridge is a sleek and high-tech design with an 8m wide walkway. The bridge is supported on the existing weir buttresses using an innovativ
https://www.archiseek.com/2024/2015-lagan-weir-footbridge-belfast-co-antrim/
#ArchitectureOfBelfast #2015 #ArchitectureOfBelfast #bridges #PedestrianBridges

#PedestrianBridges article referenced in a David Zipper @davidzipper email. https://www.itdp.org/2019/10/01/pedestrian-bridges-make-cities-less-walkable-why-do-cities-keep-building-them/

Yes. They are horrible. And ridiculous and challenging and expensive. The one near Stuyvesant I'd very rarely take. Squirrel cage sums them up. There's one in Inwood at the southeast end of Dyckman I avoid.

From 2019, but sadly still very relevant:

RT @itdp_hq: Separating people from the street reinforces the prioritization of personal motor vehicles, while encouraging speeding, driver negligence, and traffic fatalities.

Read more about why #pedestrianbridges make cities less walkable
https://www.itdp.org/2019/10/01/pedestrian-bridges-make-cities-less-walkable-why-do-cities-keep-building-them/