Unnecessary, expensive inefficient - why the rush the SNAKE BRIDGE?

So what exactly is the pressing need to move this bridge so quickly?

That’s right, Atlanta. The city is talking about spending more than twice the cost of the SunTrust stadium’s bridge in Cobb County — which crosses over 8 lanes of controlled-access interstate highway. And we’re doing so on a stadium bridge that crosses only 4 lanes of a city street so that we’ll have something fancy for Super Bowl 2019.

Katrina Taylor Parks made it clear on Wednesday that the fast timeline has nothing to do with Vine City residents and their needs. “There are several events that are coming and we don’t want to have an incomplete bridge that people will be utilizing during that time that represents Atlanta.”

Vine City and English Avenue residents, like anybody else, aren’t going to walk up and down a swirling light-up bridge that takes them twice as long just to cross the street.

http://www.threadatl.org/2018/03/02/23mil-pedestrian-bridge-mercedes-benz-stadium-really-serving-vine-city/