This truss bridge is the center of an acrimonious debate going on in Sonoma, California. It is the Watmaugh Road Bridge built in 1929. It was dedicated as an historic landmark in 1981. Today the county engineers want to replace it, and the preservationists want to rehab it. We will have to watch, probably for years, to see what happens. Bridges are so interesting. They can be so beautiful, and yet, over the years they have really, simply become functional. Granted, when big important bridges are built, lots of thought for the local town or cities “image” go into it, but what about the little ones that people cross everyday. When properly designed, crossing a small local bridge can bring as much pleasure as this one did to me if only for just a moment or two.