Hancock Avenue Bridge

Nathan says, "There is no word in the English language to describe how stupid and wasteful this is."

Actually, there is a single word that sums up those thoughts succinctly:

Government.

Wow, it sure must be nice to live in Colorado. While other states are struggling to balance their budget and dealing with serious issues ranging from funding our nation's schools, to filling potholes on roads, and while our nation's debt crisis is in the headlines, the state of Colorado has so much spare change laying around it can afford to demolish a bridge just for the sake of demolishing it... a bridge that looks like it is in excellent shape and at worst only needs a minor rehabilitation to continue serving vehicular traffic, and likely could serve pedestrians for half a century in its current condition.

There is no word in the English language to describe how stupid and wasteful this is.

This bridge is going to be demolished and no new bridge will be constructed. The letting for the project is on August 4th. All the information for the removal is at http://www.springsgov.com/rfp.aspx. It's too bad the bridge is being removed but at least they are not building a UCEB, for now anyways.