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Pedestrian bridge under construction

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Jordan Jones | Staff Writer | [email protected]

Walkway will connect City College to Curtis Park Village

Construction of a new $10.2 million pedestrian bridge is underway at City College. The bridge will connect the school with the new Curtis Park Village east of campus by spanning the train and light rail tracks. Slated for completion this summer, the bridge will improve pedestrian and bicycle safety, according to the City of Sacramento.

“The construction will require the closure of the access road behind the parking structure and around the back of the campus,” said City College’s public information officer Rick Brewer in a January email. “The road will be closed throughout the spring semester.”

According to an article in the Sacramento Bee last fall, the 174-foot bridge will be built off-site and transported in several pieces City College,. The bridge parts will be assembled next to the tracks and hoisted by a crane onto its foundations.
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The bridge’s design will evoke the railyard’s history.

“It’s light and airy and has a bit of an industrial, antique look to it,” said city project manager Ofelia Avalos in The Bee article. “We could have built a boring pedestrian bridge like you see all over, but we wanted this to be iconic, that would attract people and encourage people to take public transportation.”

Brewer said the pedestrian bridge has been in the planning stages for years and will make the campus more accessible.

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