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The Colonial Pedestrian Bridge is officially open
The long awaited Colonial Drive Pedestrian Bridge is finally finished and open to the public. We first wrote about the project HERE in 2014 when Matt Broffman was still covering the news for us, Obama was restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, and Robin Williams passed away. The quarter-mile bridge now connects an extended Gertrude’s Walk […]
Colonial Pedestrian Bridge to empty riders out on Concord Street
With the Colonial Pedestrian Bridge support tower nearly finished, Orlando residents are suddenly becoming much more aware of the bridge project than they were before. The 200 foot-long bridge is being hailed as the missing connection between the Orlando Urban Trail and Gertrude’s Walk, as it will cross over the SunRail/CSX rail lines and Colonial […]
Lighting plan submitted for Colonial pedestrian bridge
The City of Orlando has already broken ground on the Colonial pedestrian bridge that will connect the Orlando Urban Trail to Gertrude’s Walk in Downtown, as shown below. The 200 foot-long bridge was already approved by the Appearance Review Board in December, 2016, but they had a requirement that any lighting designs would have to […]
Pedestrian Bridge Update: Latest rendering
We discovered this updated rendering of the upcoming Colonial Drive pedestrian bridge project that we’ve written about previously HERE and HERE.
Abandoned I-4 pedestrian bridge to be demolished
The pedestrian bridge that crosses the I-4 between Gore and Kaley [GMap] has been sitting unused for ten years, but will soon be taken down.
ORMC Hotel Loses Pedestrian Bridge Gains More Rooms
The Orlando Medical Plaza Hotel at Orlando Health we told you about last August has some changes in store [GMap]. The developers requested to add 27 hotel rooms and remove the pedestrian bridge that was planned to connect the hotel to Orlando Health. The new plan calls for 112 rooms in the nine-story hotel that […]
Colonial Drive Pedestrian Bridge to Connect Urban Trail to Downtown
Bungalower has learned that the City of Orlando received funding from the Florida Department of Transportation to build a pedestrian bridge over Colonial Drive in-between Orange Ave and I-4. The bridge has long been discussed as a way to connect the Orlando Urban Trail, which runs through the northern Bungalow neighborhoods to Gertrude’s Walk in […]
Florida Hospital to Connect Women’s Tower to Admin Building With Pedestrian Bridge
Florida Hospital is asking the City Council to approve a pedestrian bridge over Rollins St to connect the new Women’s Tower to the new Admin Building. Both buildings are under construction. The agreement includes some new renderings of both buildings and how the area will look when both are complete. Eventually the pedestrian bridges will end […]
Orlando Health to Add Pedestrian Bridge Over Orange Ave
When we told you about the new Orlando Medical Plaza hotel being planned in Downtown South across from ORMC we mentioned that there were conversations about adding a pedestrian bridge across Orange Ave. We are now getting a first look at what the bridge might look like in new documents filed by Orlando Health with […]
Public Meeting Alert: Colonial Pedestrian Overpass Bridge public information open house
The City of Orlando is hosting a public information open house on April 4, from 5-7 p.m. at the Callahan Neighborhood Center [GMap] for residents who are interested in learning more about the project. Construction will take place during the day Monday through Friday, 7 a.m.-5 p.m., and occasionally on Saturday. The first phase of […]
Colonial Drive closing for Ped Bridge construction
Scheduled work on the Colonial Drive Pedestrian Bridge will lead to the closure of the major road at the intersection of Interstate 4 this weekend. Crews will be installing cables and truss on the new bridge between Friday and Sunday causing the road to close in both directions for the following times: 10 a.m. Friday, December […]
Crane Watch: City to break ground on Colonial pedestrian overpass this February
The long-promised pedestrian bridge that will connect Gertrude’s Walk to the Orlando Urban Trail will break ground this month, according to a recent post on DowntownOrlando.com. According to the post, construction will be taking place during the day, Monday through Friday, and the occasional Saturday, culminating in Fall 2018 when the project is expected to be […]
City considering two bids for Colonial Pedestrian Overpass project
Southland bid graphic EDIT: City Council voted to approve the Advisory Committee’s ranking and approved the CPO to execute a contract with Southland Construction, Inc., in the amount of $8.714M at the May 9 Council Meeting. Two companies have submitted design bids in response to the City of Orlando’s search for designs for the Colonial Pedestrian […]
More details on the Colonial Pedestrian Overpass
The renderings for the upcoming Colonial Drive pedestrian bridge have yet to be created, but we have here a structural layout of what it could look like.