Since we're on lockdown and I have nothing to do, I decided to make a map that would help me understand why people from Timisoara don't usually refer to their bridges on Bega by name, but usually substitute their title for the street they connect to, like for the bridge to the old Resitei street; the general neighborhood, like for the bridge in Traian or Iosefin; describing them like they do for the metal or viaduct bridges; their position relative to the orthodox cathedral, like for
Maria and
Mihai Viteazu; or by a wring name like for the Metallic bridge called colloquially Eiffel bridge.
Legend:
Blue - road bridge
Purple - pedestrian bridge
Teal - railway bridge
Yellow - main adjacent street
The conclusion I gathered is that there were so many changes made by the city hall between their names, up and down stream, that it became far too confusing to call them by name, expecially when they are named after streets from another place in the city like
Eroilor or
Traian.
Here is a drawing that shows name change directions and homologous street names:
The city hall meetings on these must have been a headache!
