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We are all being misled. The City Council resolution that mandated the study and construction (if feasible) of the bridge connecting the two halves of the aqueduct trail was passed years before the $200 million was thought of, agreed to and doled out. Other projects were built with the resources that the Council required outside the $200 million. The new playground at the corner of Gun Hill Road and Jerome Avenue is just one example.

For DEP to claim that the late feasibility study (that they were supposed to get done in the first place) prevented an allocation of money to the project is nonsensical. If the law suit on alienation had been lost and there had been no $200 million they still would have been obligated to build the bridge as a condition of putting the plant in the park.

DEP also spends plenty of money to create educational resources about the water system such as an educational trail near the Newtown Creel sewage treatment plant. How can a bridge connecting the two halves of the Croton Aqueduct trail not be profitably used by DEP to educate citizens about the history and importance of out water system?