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17th AVENUE BRIDGE RE-OPENS

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Rumour has it that one of the more distressing periods in REGJB history has come to (or will soon come to) an inglorious end with the re-opening of the 17th avenue bridge.If you recall, in an example of superb urban planning, while re-constructing the 12th Street Bridge, city planners suddenly decided to close the 17th avenue bridge, effectively reducing access to the REGJB from most points south to one or two lanes of obstructed traffic on one bridge over the famed Miami River (motto used to be: ?cops dump your drug rip-off murder victims bodies here?. You younger lawyers go ask someone who has been around a while). Of course the 17th avenue Bridge?s sudden closure was not the result of anything other than a bridge collapsing in Minnesota, which prompted some intern in the Miami City Engineer?s office, who happened to be watching CNN, to do a little investigation which yielded the interesting result that the last time the 17th avenue bridge was inspected Richard Gerstein was sitting on the 6th floor running things...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).