North Franklin Pushes To Remove Pedestrian Bridge

North Franklin Council is examining legal approaches and ramifications to handling the Washington Crown Center’s northern bridge. After deciding that repairing the bridge would be complicated and expensive, Council is now focused on removing it completely. The mall’s pedestrian bridge is a horrendous sight to the public, according to Council Supervisor Bob Sabot. Additionally, he says the mall has done nothing to renovate or fix the now-defunct bridge. “It has no purpose anymore and they don’t want to spend any money to fix it”, argues Sabot. However, demolition will be difficult, since the township cannot exercise authority over the mall’s property. In order to legally tear down the bridge, Council plans to cite the bridge’s violations in hopes of state enforced action. “It’s unsightly and the fence is falling down, which is in violation of township code enforcement, so we can cite based on that”, states Sabot. Exactly when Council will cite the bridge’s violations is undetermined.