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Re: Schumer wants pedestrian/bike path on new Amtrak rail bridge between Albany and Rensselaer |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue May 8 18:33:34 2012, in response to Schumer wants pedestrian/bike path on new Amtrak rail bridge between Albany and Rensselaer, posted by Olog-hai on Tue May 8 01:55:58 2012. The pedestrian paths on many bridges were removed by order of the US War Department as a security measure at the start of World War II. Most were not restored at the end of hostilities. The postwar years were marked by the auto, oil and rubber industries trying to remove all traces of competing transportation modes. Walking, bike riding as well as rail transit were targeted.The Parker Dunn Bridge is one example of bridge that was designed without thought of making pedestrian/bicycle access convenient. The best north-south bicycle routing is on the Hudson River east bank south of Albany and on its west bank north of Albany. This makes crossing the Parker Dunn Bridge a trouble spot. It's a little better, now that they built a bike path on the Albany side. However, crossing that bridge is only marginally better than going though the entire length of Troy for the next crossing. As Mr. SelkirkTMO noted, the marginal cost of building decent pedestrian/bicycle facilities on bridges is low when building the bridge from scratch. It's the retrofit that is usually cost prohibitive. |
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