How to get to this year's Downtown Food Truck Festival (and why it's happening under a bridge)

The crowd at the energetic #50501 protest in mid-July already knows the space under the 30 Crossing Bridge makes an ideal gathering space for civic activity — gravel and traffic din notwithstanding. For the rest of Little Rock’s population, though, it’s perhaps hard to visualize the space at all, and mentioning the 30 Crossing Greenspace is likely to elicit a resounding, “Wait, where is that again?”

That’s not entirely surprising; the south underside of the Arkansas River bridge was long a small-ish parking lot, framed by elevated traffic ramps, shaded by the bridge overhead and seemingly filled only when something big was happening at the Clinton Presidential Center or the Museum of Discovery. And during the years-long project to reconstruct the I-30 interchange , the area was a