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[john]

Folsom City Council looks like it's going to poll the public and take proposals for names for the new bridge.

My official nomination:

Johnny Cash Memorial Bridge

...after all, Johnny Cash put this town on the map, and you will have a decent view of Folsom Prison from it.

[Darth Lefty]

Folsom Dam Road Closed Bridge

But surely they are going to name it after some obscure local potentate that 95% of us have never heard of and the other 5% really hate.

[folsombound]

Folsom Dam Road Closed Bridge

But surely they are going to name it after some obscure local potentate that 95% of us have never heard of and the other 5% really hate.

That would be my guess as well!

[Terry]

Folsom Dam Road Closed Bridge

But surely they are going to name it after some obscure local potentate that 95% of us have never heard of and the other 5% really hate.

Obscure local potentate? Come on, just because YOU wouldn't have heard of that person, doesn't mean it's not important to Folsom. Keep in mind 95% of Folsom residents have only come here within the last 20 years!

Maybe you should educate yourself on those individuals who are part of Folsom's history and contributed significantly to making it so attractive to those of you who came here in those last 20 years.

[Darth Lefty]

Obscure local potentate? Come on, just because YOU wouldn't have heard of that person, doesn't mean it's not important to Folsom. Keep in mind 95% of Folsom residents have only come here within the last 20 years!

Maybe you should educate yourself on those individuals who are part of Folsom's history and contributed significantly to making it so attractive to those of you who came here in those last 20 years.

Yeah, you're one of the 5% who are really going to hate who they name it after.

[Bill Z]

Folsom Dam Road Closed Bridge

But surely they are going to name it after some obscure local potentate that 95% of us have never heard of and the other 5% really hate.

Aw, such positive commentary. Even a simple post about naming a bridge can stop your sour puss replies. Have a nice day Lefty.

While Johnny Cash did help put this town on the map, I don't think a memorial in his name is fitting. I would rather call it the Bridge to help El Dorado County get to Placer County and vice versa Bridge. After all, that is who it will benefit the most, while routing more traffic through my neighborhood from distant lands like Colfax & Placerville.

After posting on the accident post about the other new bridge, I now vote we call the newer bridge the new new bridge, or maybe the gnu gnu bridge just to confuse the little ones trying to learn english. Just the other day I was helping my Kindergartner read and he was having problems with new words. Like how do you teach how gh sounds. The ghoul went through the rough waters. Geez!!!

[Darth Lefty]

if you knew what the gnu went through...

I'm glad we get new infrastructure that doesn't fall down, but naming these things is an exercise of self-congratulation. They're welcome to it, I don't grudge it, but it doesn't matter.

[mylo]

Mylo Bridge

[folsombound]

If we're going to use people from the forum, how about the "John Bridge"? Poeple could honor John and read all kinds of other things into that.

[Carl G]

The Dam Bypass Bridge.

[Warren G]

Comcast Bridge.

[folsombound]

Comcast Bridge.

Is that so Mylo will try to destroy it?

[OceanGirl]

Howz about:

~The Other Dam Bridge

or

~ Another Dam Bridge!!

[Revolutionist]

I say, let's call it

The Bridge That Needs A Corporate Sponsor
subname
Your Name Here, $14,000,000 annually

[Andrea V]

MyFolsom Bridge.