Warning: Fox River Trail

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Permalink Reply by T.C. O'Rourke on May 10, 2009 at 11:30pm

The bridge looks fine, the sign should say "trail out".

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Permalink Reply by Joe TV on May 11, 2009 at 3:00am

This reminds me of something out of a road runner cartoon. Upon running over this, one would surely freeze motionless in midair and register surprise followed by resignation as their body began to fall, stretching our their neck attached to their still stationary head, which after a moment would snap down and you could follow the unlucky victim of gravity to a tiny dust-raising landing far below.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Bullis 5.5-6.5 miles on May 11, 2009 at 7:52am

That's a little bit worse than it was last year.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on May 11, 2009 at 9:23am

Exactly my thought, but with a big splashdown and lots of spluttering.

Joe TV said:

This reminds me of something out of a road runner cartoon. Upon running over this, one would surely freeze motionless in midair and register surprise followed by resignation as their body began to fall, stretching our their neck attached to their still stationary head, which after a moment would snap down and you could follow the unlucky victim of gravity to a tiny dust-raising landing far below.

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Permalink Reply by Anne on May 11, 2009 at 9:55am

"....in the event of a water landing, your seat functions as a flotation device..."

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Permalink Reply by alan miller on May 12, 2009 at 8:52pm

there is a sign about half mile south


Kristian M Zoerhoff said:

Kinda makes it hard to get from South Elgin to Elgin via the Fox River Trail, eh?

Did they post any warning signs for NB trail traffic further south? I'd hate to bike all the way up to this point, then have to turn around and backtrack a half mile or so to get out onto Riverview Ave and Raymond St.

A nit, if I may: the Illinois Prairie Path actually diverges from the FRT a few yards NE of this bridge, so the IPP itself is unaffected. This bridge carries the Fox River Trail below the Union Pacific RR, by slinging it out over Poplar Creek to fit beneath the existing viaduct.

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Permalink Reply by Jester on May 19, 2009 at 8:31pm

Thank you. I will not be going out there anytime soon, but one has to ask whether there is a semi-easy way to evade or jump over the bridge without getting annihilated by traffic.

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