Point A to Point B: Refurbished Cherry Hill footbridge essential to those who walk to synagogue, ball games.

Cars are overwhelmingly the major conveyance in suburbs like Cherry Hill. 

But walking — and a small footbridge over a stream off Knollwood Drive — have played big roles in the quality of life for some residents of the westside neighborhood.

Members of Orthodox Jewish synagogues who live in the neighborhood are required to walk to Cooper Landing Road services on the Sabbath and, without the bridge, the walk more than doubles in length to more than a mile. Young baseball players in the neighborhood also use the bridge to get to the Cherry Hill National Athletic League fields.

Cherry Hill two weeks ago opened the refurbished bridge with composite decking after three days of installation. The deteriorated bridge was closed a year ago and then opened late last March with temporary wood planks.

"The Township-owned Knollwood neighborhood bridge is a heavily used connector between our Knollwood neighborhood and Cooper Landing Road providing safe pedestrian access to houses of worship, sports facilities, businesses and organizations in the surrounding area," Mayor David Fleisher told 70and73.com in a statement.

Design, fabrication and installation of the 6-by-60-foot bridge cost $175,000 and is expected to have a minimum 30-year lifespan, but likely longer, the mayor's chief of staff, Brian Bauerle, told 70and73.com.

The concrete walkway to the bridge is sandwiched between two homes on Knollwood Drive. 

> Previous 70and73.com coverage:

Bridging Lives: Cherry Hill Township moving fast to reconnect a neighborhood to synagogue, ball fields.

Footbridge in Cherry Hill repaired: Getting 'the community moving back and forth' again.