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The median is different, and the light post has a big ding in it, but otherwise, the overpass is almost unchanged. As for the rest of it, on either side, there seems to be a lot more trees. But the trees that are there in the old picture look a lot taller.
Also, that building on the right is gone.
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Lanny, you are correct about the original spot for the Boer War memorial. Now, it isn't even a fountain and it the detials have never been replaced on it.
Last week I saw an older man with a walker trying to get on the overpass. It was horrible to see!
I agree Windsorshane that a sidewalk doesn't make it walkable. I find it odd that inEurope theyhave pedestrian posts along many of their sidewalks to keep cars off the sidwalk. Yet we dont' have them here. This would be a great place for them to be installed. When they refurbished the overpass, the sidewalk could have been added (suspended over the edge?) then. Just like when they re-did Dougall, they should have put in sidewalks and bike lanes.
Kind of shortsighted not to include sidewalks when it was being built. Even more so after all these years. I can kind of forgive those in 1962, they probably thought that in the future our rocket propelled space boots would alleviate the need for "walking" and "sidewalks". It was the space age after all.