The Chron's John King's crusade for a beautiful bridge to span the San Francisco Bay isn't getting very far. The pols have pretty much said we're getting a "freeway on stilts," an ugly low causeway instead of the soaring piece of architecture some – that's me – were hoping for.
Sigh.
Here's a picture from The New York Times of beautiful soaring bridge in France across the Tarn Valley. It's big. It's beautiful. It cost $520 million and it was privately, not publicly, funded.
The "old Europe," eh?