Construction started Thursday on a long-anticipated bike and pedestrian bridge over Santa Fe Drive.

The 370-foot bridge will connect two neighborhoods that have been cut in half by six lanes of traffic and a major rail corridor.

It will cross Santa Fe at West Jewell Avenue, spanning over the adjacent freight railroad and light rail tracks near Overland Golf Course.

City officials said the bridge will solve poor connectivity between its east and west neighborhoods. After the bridge is constructed, residents on either side of Santa Fe will have easier access to a portion of South Broadway, the South Platte River Trail and the nearby RTD Evans Station.

Pedestrians and bikers hoping to cross Santa Fe currently have to take the West Evans Avenue bridge, which is about a quarter mile south o

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