The notorious Enka ‘bridge to nowhere’ is finally open. Was the nearly decade-long wait worth it? • Asheville Watchdog

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The notorious Enka ‘bridge to nowhere’ is finally open. Was the nearly decade-long wait worth it? • Asheville Watchdog

It’s not often you get a thrill from just driving over a bridge. But I definitely got a little tingle Wednesday when I cruised over the newly opened span leading into the Enka Commerce Park from Smokey Park Highway. The excitement came not from wondering if the bridge’s weird, metal-tube wrapped pillars would hold the weight of my pickup (and me), but from actually witnessing it in use, by real vehicles, in motion. After I spent about a decade …