A crowd too well-dressed for the outdoor setting gathered along the banks of Brays Bayou Wednesday morning to break ground on the Bill Coats Memorial Bike Bridge.
Coats, who died in May after a long battle with brain cancer, founded Trees for Houston as well as the Hermann Park Conservancy, and had long been an advocate for improving Houston's green spaces.
The bike bridge, which was conceptualized by MC2Architects and completed by Barnhart Engineering, with construction by SpawGlass, will connect cyclists on bayou trails to the heart of Hermann Park.
Ever a stickler for quality, Coats wouldn't have settled for any dinky footbridge.
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