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It's just been in the news again recently because a 260 feet long pedestrian bridge, which was built in Italy, was floated up on barges to a park being built in

It's just been in the news again recently because a 260 feet long pedestrian bridge, which was built in Italy, was floated up on barges to a park being built in Buffalo. Being able to transport this large structure by water helps avoid closing roads to traffic or navigating under low street bridges. It attracted crowds all the way up. "This is a big deal because this used to be a commercial canal and nowadays it's not so this is an event" https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/ralph-c-wilson-bridge-travels-through-erie-canal/71-51508a66-dbec-4713-a6ee-7d3a599205df https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/ralph-c-wilson-bridg...

TomMasz 2y ago
I live in Rochester (East of Buffalo) and my house is next to the canal. I ride the canal path on my bike regularly and caught sight of the barge on Monday as it was heading West. You don't see much commercial traffic on the canal these days. The last time anything remarkable was shipped via the canal was a few years back when Genesee brewery had some new malt storage silos delivered.
dfc 2y ago
I'm from Syracuse (East of Rochester). My gf and I just went back to visit and spent a lot of time riding/running along the canal. It must have been wild to see a pedestrian bridge floating down the canal. I don't think I have ever seen anything bigger than a kayak on the canal.
- ecshafer 2y ago
  Another Syracusean on HN. Lots of upstaters apparently today.
  - thoughtsimple 2y ago
    Yup, grew up in East Syracuse about 2 miles from the Erie Canal. Rode my bike many hundreds of miles east and west as a kid.
  - colkassad 2y ago
    Grew up in Cicero, NY
beardicus 2y ago
I'm from Rome (East of Syracuse) and I don't really have any good canal stories. I actually live near Rochester now and we go on bike rides on the canal trail pretty frequently. It's quite flat and a little boring but pretty. There are lots of YouTube travel vlogs of folks biking the whole canal. You can camp at the locks, just watch out for the mosquitos! Ok, I think maybe Utica or Amsterdam is up next.
fwip 2y ago
I saw the news of it crossing the lock in my town basically an hour after it happened, was disappointing to miss it. Used to walk over that bridge every day to school.

TomMasz 2y ago

I live in Rochester (East of Buffalo) and my house is next to the canal. I ride the canal path on my bike regularly and caught sight of the barge on Monday as it was heading West. You don't see much commercial traffic on the canal these days. The last time anything remarkable was shipped via the canal was a few years back when Genesee brewery had some new malt storage silos delivered.

dfc 2y ago

I'm from Syracuse (East of Rochester). My gf and I just went back to visit and spent a lot of time riding/running along the canal. It must have been wild to see a pedestrian bridge floating down the canal. I don't think I have ever seen anything bigger than a kayak on the canal.

ecshafer 2y ago
Another Syracusean on HN. Lots of upstaters apparently today.
- thoughtsimple 2y ago
  Yup, grew up in East Syracuse about 2 miles from the Erie Canal. Rode my bike many hundreds of miles east and west as a kid.
- colkassad 2y ago
  Grew up in Cicero, NY

beardicus 2y ago

I'm from Rome (East of Syracuse) and I don't really have any good canal stories. I actually live near Rochester now and we go on bike rides on the canal trail pretty frequently. It's quite flat and a little boring but pretty. There are lots of YouTube travel vlogs of folks biking the whole canal. You can camp at the locks, just watch out for the mosquitos! Ok, I think maybe Utica or Amsterdam is up next.

fwip 2y ago

I saw the news of it crossing the lock in my town basically an hour after it happened, was disappointing to miss it. Used to walk over that bridge every day to school.