[4] It is also the route through which the RTA Rapid Transit travels on its way to Public Square in downtown Cleveland.
Kingsbury Run became notorious in the mid-1930s when an unidentified serial killer, the Cleveland Torso Murderer, used the area as a dumping ground for the dismembered remains of some of their first victims.
They evicted 300 individuals from the area and burned down approximately 100 shanty homes in a desperate attempt to weed out the killer.
[5] Due to damage caused during the Hough riots, the bridge was closed in 1966 and remains inaccessible.
[6] Continued closure of the bridge influenced Frank J. Battisti's ruling in the case Robert Anthony Reed III v. Rhodes regarding desegregation in the Cleveland schools.