Woodrow Wilson Bridge Detour – Beware

@txgoonie 23425 wrote:

I went by this for the first time in a few weeks. OMFG! The “detour” if you’re trying to go SB under the bridge doesn’t direct you as to which side of the chainlink fence you’re supposed to be on (it’s paved and accessible on both). I saw people get trapped on the wrong side and have to double back the entire way. It happens again if you take the trail ramp – the detour traps you there blocking access to the trail. If you want to go SB on the trail you either have to go all the way back down the ramp and up the apartment building’s driveway or you could jump off the curb and salmon up the GW Parkway – uh, no thank you. Wow, what a cluster-you-know-what!

I have been focused on the underpass at the bottom of the ramp. Just to console you, the detour changes every day. Someday’s the fence is there, some days not. Sometimes there are plates on the path, sometimes boards of plywood, sometimes dirt transitions over curbs, sometimes bollards, and on and on.

As for the top of the ramp where the picture in this thread was taken, all I can say is “I surrender.” The curb cut opposite this is taken up by a temporary warning sign that makes no sense. It says the sidewalk is closed with arrows into Washington Street and down the apartment access road. You have to ride around the dang thing to go in either direction! And you can’t cross Washington Street there anyway. It’s such a mess I can’t describe it.