{"id":11804,"date":"2014-04-04T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?p=11804"},"modified":"2014-04-04T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:19:23","slug":"ottawas-failed-airport-parkway-pedestrian-bridge-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2014\/04\/04\/ottawas-failed-airport-parkway-pedestrian-bridge-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa’s failed Airport Parkway pedestrian bridge goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"

The-bridge-that-just-won’t-be has made headlines again, and this time in the national media. Ottawa’s Airport Parkway Bridge, the one that is costing millions of dollars extra<\/a> and going nowhere fast, or rather \u00a0painstakingly slowly, was recently featured in an article in the Huffington Post (Canada) entitled, “Ottawa’s Airport Parkway Bridge Spawns World’s Saddest Twitter Account<\/a>“, which details the depressing, yet slightly humourous, account of the bridge’s neglect, as told by the bridge itself. Currently sitting at just under 800 followers, @airportbridge<\/a>\u00a0is perhaps the only ‘successful’ thing to come out of the project thus far. Let’s hope that changes soon.<\/p>\n

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The-bridge-that-just-won’t-be has made headlines again, and this time in the national media. 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