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Why do pedestrian bridges provoke such a strong emotional response in the people who use them?

Bridges have always been used as symbols and metaphors, as well as crossing rivers. My first editorial for the journal Transport Policy, which I founded in 1993, was called ‘Bridging the Gap’ and its mission statement declared it would be a bridge between theory and practice. The statement still survives, though successive editors since then have interpreted that in various ways: journals now survive through funding agencies’ obsessions with a brilliantly marketed though...

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