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Old Posted Mar 8, 2018, 4:48 PM
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Originally Posted by jc5680 View Post
I believe it is just repairs or refurbishment of the road/wall/railing there. The did the eastern half a few months ago; once they were done everything looked more or less the same.
They restored it to the original state, but it's FARRRR from being the same. I've walked the Franklin bridge to and from work for over 15 years and that railing and wall there were in incredibly bad shape, like just crumbling to nothing, rebar hanging out everywhere, you could see through it, much of the detailed pieces had literally fallen to the walkway and river below.

It won't look drastically different once it's done from what it was intended to be originally, but it looks amazing given it's not an embarrassing crumbling eyesore.
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