Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge
The Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge spans the Saint John River. Flaneurs, students, power walkers, runners, and cyclists make good use the bridge.
While the railway lines in much of New Brunswick have long since been retired in favour of trucks, rather than abandoning the lines, people like Bill Thorpe pushed to convert the old lines into trails. (The Trans Canada Trail runs right through Fredericton.) Inasmuch as every Fredericton resident, save the students and homeless, who can’t afford cars, drives everywhere, Fredericton has a lovely network of trails, particularly on the north shore.
While the north shore was historically the poor section of town (the wrong side of the tracks), it is today a mixed community. Plenty of comfortably middle class home owners, but run-down houses are still easy to find, as are scrap yards and strip malls.
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