This is a railway pedestrian overpass named after a group of mothers who, in 1971, held meetings with railway officials and circulated petitions and pleaded with politicians to build the overpass. On one side of the tracks was the Raymur housing project and a block away on the other side was the school their children attended. Fearful for their children’s safety, and after all their pleading fell on deaf ears, the mothers blockaded the tracks, setting up a camp and refusing to move until a commitment was in place to build the overpass. The press dubbed them the “Militant Mothers of Raymur” and that became the name of the overpass.
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What a fabulous story, we mothers sure would go all the way for our children. I can just picture the scene. Great shot of this unusual looking overpass all fenced in. We have these on some of our national roads here, but for different reasons. People were throwing rocks on the traffic below :-(
Fascinating story! I used to cross the railway tracks on foot to school every day in the infant and juniors. Walked across fields, dodged the cows, crossed the tracks, balanced on a fallen tree to cross a pond......I learned, along with all my school pals, that if you put your ear to the tracks and heard nothing, there was no train coming. If you heard a whistle in the metal, you waited because the tracks always started to "sing" when the train was about a mile or so away. Funny the things you remember, eh?
Don't mess with the mothers! This is a great shot of what I imagine is a challenging subject to photograph. I very much like the two boys silhouetted on the upper ramp, and is one of them dribbling a basketball? Great job.
