The plan to save the soon-to-be demolished Riverside Figueroa bridge across the LA River, converting it into a High-Line-esque happy fun land of skipping children, and making LA sparkle and shine may have hit a roadblock thanks to the number crunching nerds at the Bureau of Engineering. The Architects Newspaper reports that proponents of the plan believe that "the city's Bureau of Engineering manipulated the project's cost estimates "in a strategic way" to prevent City Council from requesting a feasibility study." Without said study, the pedestrian bridge plan is dead. Now they are asking for the public's support to get the City Council and Mayor on board. Otherwise the bridge will be demolished and the opportunity lost. [Architects Newspaper]
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