Judging by commentaries after your recent Times articles, absolutely no one has anything good to say about the just-opened bridge over Jesse Jewell Parkway. The bridge has actually become the local “joke” in many conversations when anyone mentions Gainesville. Skipping past why the bridge was conceived in the first place, how much it cost, who will eventually pay for it, and if it will ever lead to anything other than an empty lot, I would like to take a different tact.