Does anyone know where I can find out what the plans are for the Ped/Bike bridge over the Beltline U.S. 12/18 Highway at East and West Badger Roads and Ski Lane?
Apparently WiDOT is constructing a new ped/bike bridge near the same location. Construction began a couple of weeks ago with brush removal. This week they are doing some serious digging. Today while crossing I spoke with a construction worker who helpfully said that the existing bridge would be closed and removed before the new bridge was completed! I asked about a detour, and he said he didn't know. I asked about public notice and he said he didn't know. Does anyone know if this ped/bike bridge will be closed before the new bridge is open? Detours are few and far - probably the only thing remotely available is the Rimrock Road bridge. That is a sad excuse for a ped/bike detour since it is at least 1½-miles round trip out of anyone's way. There are no pedestrian accommodations on the east side of the Rimrock Road bridge. The bridge and Rimrock do have bicycle lanes, but traffic is notoriously awful and only the most brave occupy the debris-strewn bike lanes on that bridge. The ped/bike bridge is served by bus stops on the #13 Metro route (stops 0895 and 0462) on East Badger Road. There is an unnamed Town of Madison and City of Fitchburg residential-mixed-use neighborhood and Alexander Company's "Novation" development that straddles the Beltline Highway at the site of the bike/ped bridge. The bridge is at a confluence of government jurisdictions. Temporary loss of the bridge effectively means the Indian Springs Neighborhood and Burr Oaks Neighborhoods are isolated from each other. I'm sure the new bridge will bring an improvement to access, and I hope the construction worker was misinformed when he said the existing bridge would soon be closed. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
