"Stunning" bike-ped bridge to link Omaha and Council Bluffs

The design for a bicycle-pedestrian bridge crossing the Missouri River to link Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, was unveiled recently.

The bridge is part of the effort to turn the riverfront from an industrial zone to an appealing area for tourists and for leisure activities such as bicycling, walking and running.

"It's a bold design," Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey said. "It's a welcome mat to our communities." . . .

Hanafan said Omaha-Council Bluffs is the only metro area he could think of that hasn't significantly capitalized on its nearness to a big river.

(I can think of another such city, but then I live in Kansas City, where we have mostly capitalized on the riverfront as a handy place to dump garbage, lead, and toxic waste . . . luckily KC has a stunning new bike-ped bridge of its own, and is starting construction on a new riverfront bike-ped trail--mostly built, not coincidentally, on riverfront brownfields).

Read the whole story in the Omaha World-Herald, including a drawing of the proposed bridge.