Locals have been fighting for years for a safer way to cross without a car.
to transform the bridge's south outer roadway into exclusive space for pedestrians by 2022. That deadline has since been pushed back four times, now to the middle of 2024.
"Year after year, we're seeing the Department of Transportation drag their feet," District 25 City Councilmember Julie Won said. "We've had multiple pedestrian injuries," she said."I am a 5-foot-4, 130-pound woman, and the bike lane and the pedestrian pathway each are about the size of my shoulders."Council member Won says most of her constituents don't have cars.
"Right now, we have a city where a majority are working class," she said."Their life is being put at risk for the convenience of people in vehicles." In a statement, the Department of Transportation said in part,"DOT remains committed to expanding cycling and pedestrian space" but that the project can't begin until repairs finish on the upper deck of a bridge that's more than a century old.
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