Brunner planned a bridge to cross the railroad tracks and connect the capitol with the highest point in the city at 13th Street.
Like other longtime rulers, he has assumed the mantle of designer in chief, fiddling over details for giant mosques, planning a massive bridge and canal, devising gated communities in the name of civic renewal and economic development.
To remedy what was becoming a major delay and hazard, the Department of Highways began planning a high-level bridge to cross the shipping channel.
The designer behind the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron, Thomas Heatherwick, is planning a £60 million pedestrian garden bridge across the River Thames.
Most important, Crimea just celebrated the second anniversary of its switch, with construction planned on a bridge to link the territory to southern Russia.
As the state plans a $5 billion replacement bridge, there are new calls to give the aging structure a second life.
Preliminary planning for a bridge at the site finally began in 1947, but was suspended so that a replacement, The Causeway, could be built at Heirisson Island, at the city's eastern end.
Plans for a bridge went back 50 years before the Transporter opened.
Debated for the past 70 years, the plan for a bridge in east London has been subject to endless delays and inquiries.
He stood in parliament and sheepishly told MPs his two-tier plan was "a bridge too far".
