Cool beans. This is my first P&C thread, so I'm pretty sure I did something wrong. Why do you think they're only doing JFK access on the south side? I was down there yesterday and Walnut's got stairwells on both sides.
I agree that opening the trail up to the neighborhood more will be a good thing, but it's hard to see how we would win those concessions from CSX. Maybe we need to build connecting stairwells between JFK and 21st, 22nd, and 23rd where it runs along the Chinese Wall...
Oh, and I found a couple renders for the new bridge at
The South Street Bridge Coalition's website: