The new bike/ped bridge linking the Northeast of Eugene with the Gateway area of Springfield opened today with Peter DeFazio, Kitty Piercy, and officials from ODOT, Lane County, EWEB, Gateway Mall, city staff, and local bike/ped advocates from both cities in attendance.  The weather was GREAT after a morning of rain.  The clouds cleared out, we saw a lot of blue sky and the ride there and back was very warm!  

There were the requisite speakers talking about how proud of the bridge they are and it is a pretty great bridge- now if they would just take off those ugly signs!  But if you were more than a couple people back you really couldn’t hear with all of the traffic on I-5 which didn’t really matter too much since the people who were waiting weren’t really there to hear the speakers but to be able to walk and bike across the bridge for the first time.  

Here are some shots from the opening.  Head on over there and enjoy another bike/ped connection in our area!