Tag: Bridge

The Footbridge

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One of the two pedestrian overpasses in my neighborhood got renovated and reopened. Here’s how it looked in the beginning of January and today.

We had no easy access to the park for 6 weeks, which affected the number of steps I make.

I don’t think the overpasses are practical. They are inaccessible and difficult to maintain. The elevators get used as toilets. I think a real solution would be a traffic light and slowing down the traffic on the main boulevard (Tsarigradsko Shose). It’s too noisy and dirty as is, it’s not just that it cuts Mladost in half and the wrong half is miserable despite the park.

Speaking of the park, I finally visited it today. The temperature was -10° C. Some very cold 5k steps.

The Iron Bridge

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Not a tourist attraction but I liked the view. The little one wanted to go there to buy a specific type of candy from a specific store right next to that bridge. Who am I to resist to an offer to walk 1 hour with no particular purpose?

We saw many snowdrops on the way to the bridge and back.

Metro Station Musagenitsa

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Hard to imagine that this is a bridge but it is.

I’ve walked where the tracks are many times. It didn’t look like that though. Had no tracks, no blue plastic cover, or even guard rails. There were some ways for you to fall down, although I don’t think it ever happened. Getting in and out was clearly forbidden but there were no guards, just a broken wall and a muddy ramp.

Still, it was the fastest walk to the other side.

The view is good.

Vartopo park, Vitosha, and Darvenitsa.