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Well there are certainly cases where the perfect is the enemy of the good it if turns out that nothing at all happens. We got something for stage 1, if it had been proposed to be the optimal solution we may have nothing at all.
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I would guess that was because when they made the bridge, there was really nothing around there besides a small number of homes, industry, institutional (the old tuberculous sanatorium) and farms. It's possible there was a dirt path or even concrete one that connected to the sidewalk because people still would have walked around there, but I don't imagine it saw too many people. I tried to look for evidence of any sidewalks on the old aerial maps, but they're far too low resolution to see such details.
These days it's just used as a connection for the Walter Bean and other trails that follow the river so at least it's still useful. Beats wading through the water hah. It's not deep, but pretty nasty.