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[camay2327]

I got this information from the Folsom City Council Webcast.. The last city council meeting.


Subject: Name The Bridge Contest

From 1 April through 22 April you can submit names for the new bridge. You can email your suggestions to the following email address.

namethebridgecontest@folsom.ca.us

You can also mail your suggestions in at the following address.

Name The Bridge Contest
City Hall
50 Natoma St.
Folsom, CA 95630

More information will be forthcoming in the city newsletters and in the papers.

I believe there will also be forms that can be picked up and turned in.

After all the names have been received, I believe that the city council and maybe others will select the name for the bridge from suggestions turned in.

If more than one person submits the same name, one person will be selected to go to the opening of the new bridge. A plaque will also be put on/near the bridge as to who submitted the name. (You would think that the first person to submit the name would be the person to get that recognition)??

Like I said there will be a lot more coming out on this.

This is just a heads up.

[Jenncez]

I still like "MY Folsom Bridge".

I like it too!

[john]

submit it! Who knows! We may become famous!

[mylo]

I submitted "The Dam Bridge".. c'mon people, enough votes and we'll have a sensibly named bridge!

[Warren G]

Seeing how the road is called "Dam Road" it makes sense to call the new bridge the Dam Bridge. And when you get home late for dinner in Granite Bay it will be fun to say the traffic was slow going over the damn bridge.

[dborgen]

Regardless of the official name set forth by the city, it's going to be called "The Dam Bridge" by everyone who refers to it.

[Bill Z]

Regardless of the official name set forth by the city, it's going to be called "The Dam Bridge" by everyone who refers to it.

Probably true. Just like everyone calls Folsom Crossing, The New Bridge and not that wonderfully eloquint moniker the City Council gave it.

[Bill Z]

Subject: Name The Bridge Contest

From 1 April through 22 April you can submit names for the new bridge. You can email your suggestions to the following email address.

namethebridgecontest@folsom.ca.us

Do we have to wait until April Fools Day to submit names?
If so, I suggest we all flood it on April Fools Day with

The Dam Bridge

I've got about 6 email addresses I use that I can send suggestions from.

[john]

see, now they'll call it the "new bridge" and "the old new bridge".

[john]

You can submit now, I sent an email in and they said they will add it to the list...

[ducky]

Are they going to pick the name by the number of submittals or pick the name they like best regardless of the number of submittals for "The Dam Bridge" for example?

[john]

I'm sure it's not a majority vote. Otherwise we'd end up with MyFolsom.com Bridge!

[Darth Lefty]

OMG Teriststs!!!! Bridge

[supermom]

Or we could call it:


Proof of Pork Barrelling Bridge


Afterall; the army corp of engineers were the only one's who really saw past the non terrorist issues and insisted that there was a reason to build it, right?

[camay2327]

From the SacBee

http://www.sacbee.co...ory/747064.html

Name that bridge
Folsom seeks public input in naming new bridge over American River

The bridge being built over the American River below Folsom Dam soon may have a name, putting it on equal footing with Folsom's Rainbow Bridge and Lake Natoma Crossing.

Rich Lorenz, city public works director, unveiled plans Tuesday night to involve the community in the process. In a presentation to the City Council, he recommended a contest allowing the public to propose names.

"The (bridge) project now is well over half-completed," Lorenz said, explaining that a name must be chosen soon so the city can order signs.

Public submissions will be accepted in April and presented to the council for selection in May, he said.

The person or people who suggest the winning name will be recognized, Lorenz said.

He said the city will set up a Web site for entries, which also may be mailed to Name the Bridge Contest, Folsom City Hall, 50 Natoma St., Folsom, CA 95630.

More than 100 suggestions were received in 1999, when the city solicited names for the span across Lake Natoma. The result, Lake Natoma Crossing, was a hybrid of "Lake Natoma Bridge" and "Natoma Crossing."

The new bridge and roadway, replacing Folsom Dam Road, is scheduled to open early next year. It will link East Natoma Street with Folsom-Auburn Road.

The city is paying a big chunk of the construction of the $120 million road and river crossing.