Little Villagethe city’s plans to keep people off the arches involved building concrete walls that extended beyond the end of the arches, as well as using concrete planters as barriers to access.
“Our preferred timeline is to have it addressed this summer, so everything will be in place by the fall, when the students come back and the football season starts,” she said at the time.
The cost estimate for the new planting beds, signs and camera is $35,000, which the city will pay with money left over from the original $13.1 million in funding for the bridge.
Almost as soon as the bridge opened on Saturday, Aug. 31, people started using its arches in ways the city never intended. That weekend, five men were photographed walking over one of the arches. A week later, Meier rode down an arch.