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TRANSACTIONS NEWSLETTER ONLINE

May 2002

Project Update: New I-80 Bridge for Walkers and Bicyclists

I-80 pedestrian bridge
Photo above: Peter Beeler | Photo below: John J. Kim, The Oakland Tribune
I-80 pedestrian bridgeStriking and Functional
Not all bridges are over water. The city of Berkeley's striking new "basket-handle" bridge transports bicyclists, pedestrians and wheelchair users over the river of traffic flowing along Interstate 80. MTC paid for nearly half the $6.4 million cost of the overcrossing with federal Transportation Enhancement Activities funds.

Spanning the 10 lanes of I-80 close to University Avenue, the 300-foot-long steel-arch bridge links Berkeley to its waterfront and the planned Eastshore State Park. The bridge also will soon connect to the Bay Trail, which will ring the entire Bay and feed into the transbay bike path that will be built in conjunction with the new east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
— Brenda Kahn

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