Can you hate a bridge?

Yes.  I believe that you can hate bridges and all other inanimate objects including carbon rods, ears of corn, and fabric swatches.  The bridges that I hate are drawbridges, especially those over unimportant and small waterways that impede traffic for recreational or private purposes.  When drawbridges are raised they begin as quaint next annoying then boring back to annoying and the wait becomes infuriating as you watch the obese bridge operator smoking and texting his girlfriend while the uhf/vhf wails for his attention.  You think that anyone can do his job, press button make bridge go up and press button make bridge go down. Waits can turn into eternities as the backup cascades miles behind the bridge itself as a Hinckley daysailor 42 putters up or downriver.  This is magnified on interstates such as I-280 over the Passaic River in Newark and formerly over the Hutchinson River on I-95 in the Bronx.

The bridge that I hate is the Stanley H. Stroffolino Bridge also known as the Washington Street Bridge in South Norwalk, Connecticut.  The Norwalk River sees mostly recreational boat traffic and some commercial vessels such as barges and small tankers.  It is not a busy place.  The Stroffolino is a state operated maritime drawbridge that crosses the Norwalk River carrying the circuitous State Highway 136.  It opened on 2 February 1974 after being legislated to replace the old drawbridge in 1949 by the aforementioned State Senator Stanley Stroffolino from Norwalk, who served on the Roads and Bridges Committee.  The old bridge was damaged severely in the 1955 Floods.

The previous bridges were operated by the City and predate the creation of the state highway.   The Stroffolino Bridge is the second automobile drawbridge over the Norwalk; the first bridge was located closer to the railroad crossing and the row of Italianate roofed stores.  The first road bridge was finished in 1912 by the city.  Norwalk purchased plots of the Aisthorpe and Betts lands on the east side marsh and abutting the railroad bridge from the Bank following foreclosure in 1911. See Norwalk v. Kate Podmore (1913)

Hatred is not a logical expression it is emotional and rarely wins an argument.  Despite these set of facts, the Stroffolino drawbridge is unnecessary and should be replaced with a permanent structure or removed entirely.  For aesthetic reasons South Norwalk would probably fight a new bridge especially if the span is higher or incongruous with Washington Street and the urban renewal, but it would save the state on maintenance and rid it of another bridge operator.  Norwalk does not need a drawbridge.  No one needs another drawbridge.