MarketStEl, I agree 100% but the bridge pictured is quite different than what is needed for South/Spruce Street. The required span is probably 3 or 4 city blocks, quite high in parts, and the amount of traffic is huge. I like the deco design of the bridge pictured and I assume you were only using it as an example.

IMHO, spend the money on a beautiful bridge that future Philadelphians will be proud of and won't mind maintaining. Most Parisians don't bitch about the price of repairing bridges across the Seine because, though expensive, many are works of art. We already have enough highway overpasses. We need something that will compliment the new park, the link between Center City and University City, and the vistas of the skyline, Franklin Field, etc.