April 16, 2025

The denial of the injunction halting demolition of Skinners Falls Bridge by federal court does not negate the validity of the valiant advocacy by Damascus Citizens for Sustainability and countless people in our region and beyond who crusaded for years for the preservation of this historic and restorable landmark against the destructive power of PennDOT.

All of our actions to preserve the bridge have been in accordance with our mission to preserve the health and safety of human beings and their environment, including cherished historic resources that are our history. That bridge is poetry in steel.

We continue to claim that PennDOT played three card monte with the public and the bridge with deceit and hidden agendas that we hope will be revealed by a documentary film we will produce.

Meanwhile Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro still has the power to stay the execution of this bridge.

WE  may have lost this case, AND THE NATION WILL NOW LIKELY LOSE A BRIDGE THAT IS DOUBLY ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES .

But the fact that we fight with facts and purpose means that we are in actuality the winners.

B. Arrindell, Director
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability

Download notes of UDC Director Laurie Ramie on the Skinners Falls Bridge as a pdf
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