Good Grief. Give the money back to the tax payers! How many people will actually walk across this bridge daily? 2? 3? Fix the damn air quality first for pete's sakes! Did you taste the air this morning? Absolutely disgusting.

Beam me up Scotty.

It is a nice thought, but really who walks across that bridge to the industrial site...I'm w/ you zoopdingle. Not $$$ well spent...I guess we will see when it's finished - hopefully people in vehicles will be able to see it too.

Money well wasted...I bet some other artist will add to them with paint or smash it all to bits like Terry Fox's head....better make them hard to reach and bullet proof.

First Nations Themes? After all, it was circa Simon Fraser way back when. Maybe a painting of Simon Fraser crossing the river in a canoe. Now that would be cool! I'd slow down to look at that! I don't ever recollect them aboriginal fellas ever building a bridge. Oh, well. Anything to keep the peace and curry favour. You just wait.

the city can't wait to waste more of the taxpayers money, why not go for the real big deal and cover the bridge in with glass walls and roof, maybe some stained windows so we could feel better as we are raped to the last penny,me thinks the burecrat needs a reduction in pay to teach them a lesson in economics of where the money comes from. I don't see any artists coming forward with their ideas and money, what no northern rembrandts ?only some city official trying to keep a inflated budget spent, try coming in under budget once in a while or else go jump off a bridge.

This is like pages out of "Alice in Wonderland". Can those who are "running" this city not see the many real, honest needs around them? Can they not see those who need a place to sleep, a decent meal, as one example? Another example would be the taxpayers who are on a fixed income, who are having to stomach another tax increase, etc.

As far as those who walk across that bridge, and could enjoy the "artwork" - I live across that bridge, and I could count on the fingers of two hands the number of pedestrians I have seen on it in the last 30 plus years.

Would it be too much to ask for to ask those who control the purse strings to get in touch with reality?

If only city officials would read this forum...I wonder what goes through their minds...maybe we should all try to become city councillors - I bet that would be an exercise in complete frustration if you actually became one...oh, the head banging...

$14,000 for that and still no bridge on camron street.

This is what I call a, bunch of bleeding hearted liberals, tree hugging commies, fish kissing, limp wristed gearboxes in power.

Wake up, there is a down turn in the economy. Start saving money, instead of creating ways to spend money.

Hey, good comments, maybe that bridge should have a peaked roof with all glass
Remember the world is watching city hall.
I just caught myself wondering what city
hall will come up with next.I cant say im comfortable with all their ideas.

It sounds to me that with the new bridge we may not be able to see the river anymore as we drive accross except for those driving gass guzzling hummers and the like.
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Not enough "pedestrians" in the past? I think the posters on here are forgetting the price of gasoline. This is a bridge that will last for a few decades, half a century, whatever.

In 2050, when the City has a population of 378,000, and the BCR has become an integrated neighbourhood of residences, shops, recreation, light industrial and office workplaces, river walks, etc. the people biking ands walking accross the bridge will thank the future thinking citizens of 2008 for remembering the city's white founder.

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elanke: "This is like pages out of "Alice in Wonderland". Can those who are "running" this city not see the many real, honest needs around them? "

The answer is a resounding NO.

They obviously don't care about any of those plainly visible real, honest needs. Too mundane, too tedious, not glamorous enough, sorry folks!

"Wake up, there is a down turn in the economy. Start saving money, instead of creating ways to spend money."

Don't forget, this is art. It appreciates in value with age. Look at it as an investment. When we are hard up in the future, we can remove the panels and sell them to the Inu as white man's stone carvings.

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money,commerce,greed. Society is suffering from too little art. In the future there may be foot traffic, if there is more development on the south side of the bridge. In calgary they have art on thier overpasses that make the city look good, I'm presuming the art will be able to be viewed as we approch on Ferry Ave. Arn't we tired of looking like a boomtown. Prince George is a beautiful city, making it look more permanent might make people want to stay, possibly choose to live here. What can be wrong with that? Perhaps we could critique without making racial slurs.

anyone remember the fence painting on the construction walls in downtown van in the late 60`s ...it was cool, and i think started a trend. But then again I was a youth and we were/aren`t into trends, right?

Another waste of tax payers money.

Just think of it this way. With those artsy fartsy panels there, we will not have to put any hanging baskets there or banners ..... that'll save tons every year ....

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mouse... Prince George is not a beautiful city. And any comment referring to First Nations people is not a racial slur. Just so ya know.

mouse..." Arn't (sic) we tired of looking like a boomtown...."? How about you going downtown on a a Saturday about noon. Watch out for some one shooting a cannon down the street and not hitting anything or anybody. Boomtown? Ha ha ha. Ya right.

So if a driver is distracted trying to look at the pictures does that make the city accountable to ICBC? Or does the city get sued outright -- wait that's the taxpayers isn't it.

Will this cause traffic accidents as drivers slow down to get a look, then drift into the oncoming lane because they are awestruck by the really good art?
Or will this end up like the mural(s) in what, Brooklyn was it? the ones that are now worth so much that the city has to insure them to the tune of 100,000 dollars per year. Waddacrockacrapp. I would much rather be able to see the river personally.
metalman.

No bare breasted babes either. This bridge isn't the Legislature Building in Victoria ya know.

From the description, it sounds like the concrete panels are being placed between the pedestrian and the vehicular part of the bridge deck. Something like no post guardrails, let's say.

They will be placed there whether they have a cast image relief on them or not. To cast a relief in them is not going to cost any more money. It is paying for the artist and the process of finding the artist that will be an additional cost.

I am assuming that the vehicular side of the panel will not have an image on it, other than big dollar signs all the way along made of reflective material to brighten up the roadway and discourage vehicles from driving too close to the barrier.

I think this one would be appropriate to reflect the theme of the blue water of the Fraser and its animals.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/piet_musterd/141828189

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