Newark improvement No. 24: Pedestrian bridge to schools

• A Safe Routes to School grant helped pay for a pedestrian bridge over Log Pond Run diversion ditch.

To commemorate a banner year for the city, The Advocate is highlighting 31 improvements in the city of Newark in 2016 through the month of December. Here is a brief look at number 25.

NEWARK – Liberty Middle School and Legend Elementary School students living east of the T.J. Evans Bike Path can now walk to school without traveling along Sharon Valley Road, which has no sidewalks and very little shoulder.

A Safe Routes to School grant helped pay for a pedestrian bridge over the Log Pond Run diversion ditch, connecting the schools on Evans Boulevard with the bike path and the neighborhood.

The bridge allows students living north of Sharon Valley Road, west of North 21st Street, south of Goosepond Road and east of the bike path to reach the schools without crossing a major road. And, those living south of Sharon Valley Road can take the bike path under Sharon Valley Road to reach the new bridge.