Archived Opinion

Old steel should be used for footbridge

To the Editor:

I have an idea for reducing the cost of the footbridge at the end of the Cullowhee Greenway. Use the I-beams from the old U.S. 23/74 highway bridge in Willets. They were good enough to handle loaded dump trucks, so any crew of equipment operators could cook up a way to use those monsters for a people-bridge; and it would save the cost of disposal. 

Chris Bogardus

Cullowhee

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