Yay! (and help!)

This very morning my spouse and I were in a rare car outing and wondering to ourselves when (oh when!) the South Street bridge might finally be closed off and really given an overhaul. And look! plans are official! It will be closed off in April of 2007 (uh, I guess advanced planning is good, but...?), and then kept closed for eighteen months of work. I suspect that some ugly things are about to happen to traffic in the western part of Center City...

More details here, including the clarification that a completely new bridge will be built, but that there are no plans for the more ambitious dream of changing the way that traffic merges onto the highway below. The new design won't be finalized until fall.