Just before school started, the La Fonda bridge opened back up and it was cause for local celebration! Last summer, it was knocked down during the wee hours of the morning with nothing more than a “giant machine invented in 1966 called a Ho-Ram” (and some pictures of our in-laws (Jeff’s nieces and their dad) made it in a local paper) and subsequently rebuilt, with bike lanes and a pedestrian sidewalk added to it. The widening was part of a larger effort to span additional lanes being added to the freeway below.
In any case, the bridge closure cut off a route to a significant number of elementary school families and, obviously, a way out of the neighborhood for all of us residents! So, the re-opening was a big deal. And, of course, we wanted to be one of the first few to walk/bike/skip across it!
I thought Dylan would be able to ride his bike across while I pushed Chloe merrily along in the stroller, but the event drew quite a crowd! We saw some neighbors, including Maddie (from Dylan’s kindergarten class) and a couple of the Kinder teachers(!).
So, there was no actual riding of the bike across the bridge. But we got to register Dylan’s bike with the police, do some spin art, get some goodie bags and apple juice, and get some sno-cones, so nobody was disappointed.
Now that the bridge is open again, the school traffic on our street has improved immensely! Also, we now have our more direct route to the beach (and other east-ward destinations) back!
