It wasn’t until Kapur came around that a renowned quote by former City of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel became obsolete – “For far too long, residents of this community could see the lakefront, but they couldn’t easily reach it.”
Kapur helped build two serpentine pedestrian bridges to connect the Bronzeville neighborhood with Lake Michigan, including the fully ADA-accessible 1,470-foot-long 41st Street Pedestrian Bridge, which crosses over South Lake Shore Drive and the Metra Electric/CN Railroads by incorporating twin 240-foot-long inclined arches on flowing S-Curves.
Due to the arches spanning on a reverse curvature and on a long crest curve where the center between the arches is 7 feet higher than the outside ends of the arch at the approaches, lakefront access from the south was especially improved.
A combination of quality design plans, an independent 3D model developed by the fabricator, and close coordination between the designer, construction engineer, and contractor resulted in a successful project.
