Originally Posted by B. Carfree

The one with all the red lighting is something of a local joke. It was built to connect a part of town that has approximately zero people who walk or ride bikes to the main river bike path. While it does successfully span the four lane Delta Highway, some idiot designer failed to note the 60 mph traffic on Goodpasture Island Rd that adjoins Delta Highway. Thus, those few people who cross that bridge must wait for this high speed traffic to clear before attempting to cross. Needless to say, very few people use the bridge and no unaccompanied children cross it. At one point we feared it would cost close to $1000 per crossing, but now it looks like it will be less than $100.

Eugene is pretty good at securing funds for bike bridges and paths to no where. Unfortunately, the notion of actually building bike infrastructure to connect people to places has not yet arrived.