It suffers visually from being in an ugly area. It needs some more landscaping to break up the hard lines of the industrial area it's in. I would like to see some more color to it. Haven't seen it in the evening. It does the job, but the fact that you still have to cross four lanes of traffic to get to it and you can get across Hiawatha faster by waiting for the light are big minuses.
Yes, having a bituminous asphalt crushing plant next door certainly doesn't help. But IMHO, I have a problem with it, esthetically. Besides the (I think) nine-million dollar cost, it continually reminds me of a sinking ship. Structurally, it must have cost more to build it to support it's own whole off-angle thing. Cost aside, it sticks out, and was designed to stick out in a perhaps ostentatious, at least garish, manner
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I understand the reasoning behind the design due to constraints imposed by Hiawatha and the Hiawatha Line, but I agree it doesn't quite work and ata hefty price. I mainly see it from the bikeway and rarely drive under it in a vehicle. I wish we could have made the new 35W bridge more distinctive and let the bike bridge just have form follow function. Which it does, I admit. I just thought they went overboard on the Sabo bridge, which is flawed from the start, and missed an opportunity to make a statement about Minneapolis with the 35W bridge. All that bridge says is "Interstate".
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