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In article <D1rqM4.4BJ@cruzio.com> mkthomas@cruzio.com writes:
>I'll be very blunt here.  If you wait for the city, even with letter of 
>suggestion or pressure, to build a bridge, or a bicycle bridge, over the 
>harbor, I can guarantee you right now you will grow very old waiting for it to 
>happen.  I've been in this town for 16 years now and have heard of this 
>*mystical* bridge ever since I got here.  
    i sincerely believe that had we not proposed the bike/ped bridge idea,
the car bridge project would have gone forward.  i also believe that if
bike advocates would put their full support behind the bike/ped bridge,
that would go too.  whether or not it's a good idea.

>I've actually gotten to the point that I don't want to see it build.  I kinda 
>like brommer and broadway just the way they are.  I've also gotten very used 
>to walking my bike up the stairs to the frederick st. park.  With all the 
>traffic on capitola rd. and eaton st. bridge, its actually a pleasant 
>alternative.  I kinda dread the traffic we will see on broadway past seabright 
>and brommer past 7th if a bridge gets built.  
    the bridge project being studied is only for bikes/peds.  even so, there
are environmental impacts.  the environmental constraints, plus the land
ownership constraints, will make the design tricky and expensive.  that money
would buy a lot of little bike improvements.

--- don fong