The Trestle is a perfect symptom of the way capital paints a pretty picture over poverty and dead industry. See? There's nothing wrong! Everything's fine!
In my city we have one of these former rail bridges as a bike bridge now. While it's sad that it used to carry trains and doesn't anymore, it is hand-painted and weathered so it looks a lot nicer than this obnoxious branding. Pretty good trail too. I wish cities would be planned properly so there can be railways and bike paths instead of this zero-sum thing.
I remember how bike friendly SNCF was in France. You could spend you day riding and taking the trains between more distant villages. I maintain :france-cool: , but SNCF is a lovely thing.
The Trestle is a perfect symptom of the way capital paints a pretty picture over poverty and dead industry. See? There's nothing wrong! Everything's fine!
It would look better if they'd just left the metal bare. What soul there was, they killed it.
In my city we have one of these former rail bridges as a bike bridge now. While it's sad that it used to carry trains and doesn't anymore, it is hand-painted and weathered so it looks a lot nicer than this obnoxious branding. Pretty good trail too. I wish cities would be planned properly so there can be railways and bike paths instead of this zero-sum thing.
I remember how bike friendly SNCF was in France. You could spend you day riding and taking the trains between more distant villages. I maintain :france-cool: , but SNCF is a lovely thing.