Bridges and Barriers

As I was writing about bridges as the connective tissue that holds Pittsburgh together, I couldn’t stop thinking about John Edgar Wideman’s Sent For You Yesterday.  In the novel, along with the other Homewood Books, the railroad tracks confine the characters physically, but liberate them metaphorically.  This is a more complicated question than I can really address in this post, but as a way of challenging what I wrote yesterday, I’d like to ask, “In what ways can modes of transportation divide us from our destinations?”