Bridge Street/Stuck River Bridge
View from Southwest
Photo taken by K. A. Erickson in February 2011
BH Photo #194075
In 1940, master bridge engineer David Steinman slams engineers in his book "Bridges and Their Builders" for designing bridges which were themselves utilitarian and ugly, and required "embellishment and ornamentation." Ironically, in doing so, he was looking back to many of the metal truss bridges in which we see beauty today... yet I cannot help but wonder what he would think of the hideous looking structures that engineers today embellish with lighting and non-structural decorative elements in an attempt to do what I personally call "putting perfume on a skunk."
REEEEEEEEEETCH! BLEAH! GAGAGAGA! Man, that bridge is ugly!
Wow...I gotta say, I AM speechless...only because it's impossible to say anything while projectile vomiting.
Sumner really hates this bridge.
So naturally they are going gaga for this design for the new one.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/05/18/3200154/council-mem...
"This seems to open it up a great deal for us," a nearby business resident commented at the meeting.
But at least they'll have the replica lampposts. Thank goodness for that right?
Sumner is in the process of redoing its main arterials. Construction and chaos exists. There are two plans for redoing streets westward, one with the current bridge the other with a multi-lane concrete structure. The lights that were on the bridge in earlier pictures are no longer there. They have also cleared foliage around the bridge. Have they reached a decision?
Demolition. https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/community/puyallup...