East Bay’s own High Line?
September 10th, 2009
Photo from Rael Fratello Architects
Wow. UC Berkeley architecture professor Ronald Rael has some novel ideas for the reuse of the east span of the Bay Bridge. Looks great.
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This is great. Except there are a few problems as pointed out in the comments on the sfstreetsblog article you link to. How would people get there? And what about seismic safety?
I hope some good problem solving happens around this…it’d be a very cool idea if it was workable.
The problems are legion. But it’s great there are architectural dreamers. Sometimes dreams come true.
GJELblogger: they claim to have thought out seismic issues.
All: wasn’t it what is today the Dunbarton that, for a while, F. Lloyd Wright was pimping a “park on a bridge” plan?
-t
Nice idea, but I don’t think it can fly, economically. Reminds me of the houseboat I had considered buying years ago: all the maintenance/problems of a house and a boat without the full benefits of either. Here you have the costs of maintaining a park and a bridge structure without the revenue generation of a bridge to cover at least a good part of it. And the structure is already approaching the end of its useful life (not to mention the seismic issues).