15th Ave bike bridge!

For the last couple weeks, a small construction crew has been working on the Arizona Canal midway between 19th Ave and 7th Ave. What kind of project involves symmetrically erecting two concrete platforms on opposite sides of the Canal? A bike & pedestrian bridge!

The sign says: Intermittant [sic] Pathway Closures Mid May – August 2013.

I could have used this bridge for my previous work commute, as it would have given me a non-pain-in-the-butt way of using 15th Ave, which has bike lanes starting just south of the canal and running continuously all the way to downtown. It's one of a very few bike friendly ways of going straight north and south in Phoenix.

Between this bridge, the new 7th Ave underpass half a mile away, and the bike lanes the city installed on Central Ave last year, the city remains committed to building new bike infrastructure. Good spelling, however, has been budgeted out.