Silver Spring, Italy
The Talbot Avenue bridge in Montgomery County, Maryland, is a two-lane pedestrian and vehicle bridge that connects the neighborhood of Lyttonsville to downtown Silver Spring over the Metropolitan Subdivision of the CSX railroad. Built in 2024, it is the third bridge across railroad tracks in this lo
cation. Historically, the bridges connected an antebellum community founded by a free Black laborer to neighborhoods where for decades Black people were allowed to work, but not live. Today, it carries the Georgetown Branch Trail extension of the Capital Crescent Trail.
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