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Show Striking, novel and of peculiar interest, in-terest, especially as showing the way in which bridge-making will develop in the future, is the new bridge which is building to connect New York with Brooklyn. Perhaps the most popular feature is to be a bicycle path, covered cov-ered with asphalt carried at a certain height above the tracks for trollies and for carriages.. This bicycle track is to be for the exclusive use of wheelmen, wheel-men, and the opposing streams of traffic will be carefully divided. Beneath Be-neath the bicycle track is a footpath for pedestrians, and above it the track for the elevated railway. On each side are double trolley tracks affording accommodation ac-commodation for four cars abreast, while the outer sides of the bridge - are reserved for carriages and ve- hides going the same way, so that the traffic will be as little impeded as pos- V sible. The bridge is to be 7,200 feet " long, or nearly a quarter of a mile onger than the present bridge, most . of this increased length being taken iu by the approaches. I |