Liz Marince was upset when she left the Dixon Branch Homeowners Association meeting last December. She had just heard of the state’s plan to replace six bridges on Northwest Highway, just north of White Rock Lake, and she didn’t like them one bit.
Neither, she says, did most people there. Many members of the association, which includes residents living below Northwest Highway between Easton and Jupiter, were unhappy with what they heard, she says.
“I didn’t hear any people who were for the bridge. I wouldn’t say it was 100 percent unanimous, but pretty close to it. A lot more people seemed concerned about it than not,” Marince says.
Representatives of other area neighborhood associations south of Northwest Highway presented the issue at the meeting. They also passed around a petition against the new bridges, which Marince signed.
Nearly six months later, she remains opposed to the project.
“It’s the aesthetics,” she says, adding that she was told the bridges would do away with the greenbelt or block the view of it. “I’m also concerned about graffiti and homeless people possibly living under it.
“I understand they’re doing it for the flooding of the intersection, but it seems a little extreme to me. It’s usually only for a few hours that it happens, and they’re pretty good about getting out there and barricading it.
“I don’t want the new bridges at all. I don