You can get out and look at them

Only about 20 percent of the cost of the project is the actual bridge; about 60 percent is the cost of widening five miles of highway, building elevated approaches and rebuilding seven interchanges. A bridge design incorporating a lift span ... could be vastly cheaper than the current IBR design.

the last paragraph is especially damning

if one were to build a lift span bridge, the overall structure could be much lower, and as a result, the approaches could be much lower, and this would obviate the need to rebuild, high in the air, the interchanges just north and south of the river

Ask yourself: without your mobility aid (car), can you:
- get groceries
- see friends
- go to the doctor's
- go to the dentist's
- go to school
- go to a community centre
- go swimming
- get a haircut
- get take away
- go to a park
- go to a therapist
- see a gig
- go to a bakery
- go to a cafe

then they'll be annoyed.

I don't even consider that a bike lane in that state. its just leaf storage

The bike lane there is already the dumbest thing in the world and it’s much worse now