Nice philosophy. If you you want to put up the money go right ahead. Don’t ask me to. Are you honestly thinking that people in Rockville want to ride a bike to McLean to go to work? Or go shopping in Tyson?
MacArthur Blvd passes under the bridge BTW.
I have waited 40 years for the Techway bridge and I don’t see that happening either.
As for the cost estimate. Rockville paid close to $10M to put a bike bridge across Viers Mill Rd 8 years ago. Sop yeah it will be a hell of a lot after you incluse all of the new paths, approaches, ramps, barriers, signage ect. What did you think it add $5M? And best of all.... nobody use that one either.
Thanks for wanting to impose your dream world on the rest of us .... at our expense.
In general, in a major metro area, a pedestrian/bike overpass is a subsidy for motorists, not bicyclists or pedestrians. It is the price for eliminating a stop sign or stoplight. The Viers Mill biking overpass to which you refer may be an exception. Do you know the rationale? The overpass is on the Rock Creek Trail at the point where Viers Mill Road crosses Rock Creek Park. There is an at-grade crossing just a short distance away, which I suppose is how trail users crossed Viers Mill before the overpass was built. This is a very minor detour off the trail and looks perfectly serviceable to me. It’s nice to have an uninterrupted trail, and maybe the National Park Service and/or Montgomery County had money burning a hole in its pocket at the time. Eight years ago was the Obama era; was this perhaps stimulus money, which was thrown around rather promiscuously for press release purposes? Or were too many people getting hit at that crossing, as the Rock Creek Trail is busy, and so is Viers Mill.