A new pedestrian bridge across the American River is still a big, bright bold idea.<\/p>\n
And nearly 15 years after initial funding of $500,000 was pledged, the idea of spanning the river belowAuburn is gaining some renewed momentum.<\/p>\n
Auburn\u2019s environmental group Protect American River Canyons (PARC) is taking a lead.<\/p>\n
A letter-writing campaign to State Parks officials has generated hundreds of pleas for consideration of a bridge and improved public access to the China Bar area.<\/p>\n
Located off Auburn\u2019s Maidu Drive, the China Bar area is in the Auburn State Recreation Area on land owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and operated by State Parks.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s part of the site of the long-delayed Auburn dam and was once a river crossing, when the stretch of the waterway was underground, flowing through a diversion tunnel built during construction in the 1960s.<\/p>\n
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