Not for today, but one of these years, since the city would have to get state funding first, but the Globe reports city engineers are working out how to replace the old be-girdered span with something a bit friendlier to acrophobes and other pedestrians.

Occupy Boston and union members did not shut down the Charlestown Bridge tonight, unless you count the roughly two minutes police closed it to let the protesters march from Commercial Street onto Causeway Street.

Before the bulk of Occupy Boston came down Commercial Street (once again failing to lob even token protests at Romney headquarters), a bagpiper joined the hardhats and service workers who held protest signs where Commercial turns onto the bridge in advance of the rally.