Cycling a bridge-finally

[Trek420]

Shootingstar, I bet your bridge has signs posting directions to it.

That's been my cycling commute conundrum. "My" bridge is lonely, I rarely see another ped or cyclist on it. So as the evenings get darker I've been loath to be on the bridge going home especially with all the blind corners.

I should have lots of company and bike traffic. The bridge parallels the route for urban/working riders going from a working class residential area where we also have our light rail and bus stations to the industrial/business section where jobs/stores are.

Instead these invisible cyclists, also entire families walking from work or shopping to home take the freeway overpass. They can see the bike ped bridge from there. I imagine if you're pushing a stroller and carrying groceries, or a tired hard working day worker riding to a job you're not going to say "la la la la la, that looks like a better route! I'm just going to wander over, there has to be a route there it'll be fun I need the walk/ride anyway "

And most of us so-called Active Commuters follow them.

Along the major East/West street there are no signs to the bridge, if you just happen to turn off the main road thinking "if I go this way maybe I will get there" no signs to the bridge. But wander around and you'll find it, the entrance and a sign that's pointing the wrong direction but it's a sign

Here's one entrance with the sign pointing the other way. But it's a start.

A local Supervisor has long ago promised us signs. Maybe I should remind him? Or make my own.