I’m glad John Wilson is keeping track of the latest in fancy passerelles. Here’ s an entry winner from Aarschot, Belgium:
West 8 and BAS-Dirk Jaspaert designed this new pedestrian bicycle bridge over some rail tracks that will connect the old and new parts of the city, and become a crucial link within the regional bicycle path network.
It’s meant to ‘tempt and surprise’ and ‘offer cyclists and pedestrians a new rest and meeting place above the busy rail tracks, but at the same time it gives them a sense of security.’
In the first pic, are those stairs going down to the railway tracks? i.e. platforms?
I also see that the access ramp on the right side of the second pic resembles the ramps to the Canada Line North Arm Bridge.
Vancouver needs its own passerelle over the railway tracks in the False Creek Flats area of the Central Valley Greenway.