The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge

This pedestrian bridge crosses I-494 just west of the Minneapolis Airport. It connects Bloomington to Richfield. I drive under it often and I wondered: why is it there? It's not in an area that is particularly walkable, and it doesn't connect any establishments that obviously need to be connected. So why was it built?

There's no possible way to tie this to OSNews, but it's such a fun and well-written story it's worth breaking character for. I'm not even making a smug comment about being Dutch and being used to the world's best infrastructure and...

Damnit. I failed.