While much of the US struggles with congested and crumbling roads and bridges, the opposite is also a problem — overbuilt infrastructure with excess, unused capacity. Richmond’s MLK bridge is the poster child, overbuilt decades ago for traffic that never appeared, yet unsuited for present use which includes a lot of bike and pedestrian traffic. With luck, change is in the works. Please see the story at NBC12.com, with pictures: City planning to enhance MLK Bridge.
If you build it, will they come? They sure did in Chicago, as shown in this Streetsblog video:
There’s already plenty of bike-ped traffic on the MLK, but the improvements would bring a lot more.
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