Or good biky news to go with good hiky news. This town sits on a river. OK, three rivers. One is called the Broad River for reasons that might occur to you. (It's not all that broad compared to the Amazon, say, but I'm not sure I'd want to swim across.) Crossing the Broad River (this'll surprise you, too!) is the Broad River Road which, unbelievably enough, does so on the Broad River Bridge. This bridge needed replacing, but it's also an essential artery, so it needed replacing while staying more or less open. Apparently this is pretty tricky. It took, by our calculation, 115 years. (This may be an exaggeration.) Seriously, my friend Paul thinks it has taken the length of the Obama Administration; I think it's been a bit less than that.
Anyway, it's been at least 5 years. What makes it hiky/biky is that they had built a pedestrian/bike bridge down from it to the Columbia Canal/Riverfront Park, just about five minutes before cutting it off again for a century of construction. That little connector was particularly handy for Paul, as he bikes everywhere, and it let him bike from up/downtown (where he lives; it's called either up- or downtown, though I admit I prefer both) to a good thrift store and a good new/used record store with much greater safety than otherwise. And now it's back! And in the interim, they've put in interesting riverfront trails to go with the canalside one that was always there. So yay again!
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