Cambridge Pedestrian Bridge

[GtwoK]

The more I think about the location of this bridge, the more I scratch my head.



The three red lines I've drawn in the lower section of this map represent existing bridges.

The two blue lines, at the top and the bottom, represent the under-reconstruction Fountain St. Bridge, and the new Pedestrian bridge.

The two orange lines, a and b, show two areas I think a pedestrian bridge would be more helpful.  The location where the new one is going now is so close to 97 that it seems like a bit of a waste.  If we were going to spend all that money to build a bridge, wouldn't it be better to be in a location where there aren't any bridges?

I think about this mainly because my commute by bicycle from the Northeast end of Cambridge, to central Kitchener, looks something like this (to avoid Fountain/King/Shantz Hill at rush-hour):



I have to go waaaay South, because there's no bridge between Fountain St. and Park Hill Road.

Although, looking at the map this way, I realize there are a ton of environmental concerns and huge engineering challenges with the terrain all along there.  So I'm probably just rambling...

If you don't mind me asking, why not this route? Seems much shorter. Even more so if that rumored ped/cycling bridge (in purple) gets built.



Speaking of which, whatever happened to that? did it go anywhere? Was it dropped?