Solon Karydakis pedestrian bridge, Footbridge in Psychiko, Athens, Greece.

The Solon Karydakis pedestrian bridge crosses Kifisias Avenue at Stefanou Delta Street, on the border of Psychiko and Filothei. It is a cable-stayed footbridge 40 metres long, with a metal deck and glass protective panels, supported by two grey concrete pylons. Access is by stairs, escalators or four lifts, two on each side.

The bridge was built after 15-year-old Solon Karydakis, a student at Athens College, was killed by a speeding car on the crossing at this spot on 4 December 2009. His father, an MIT engineer, and members of the school community pushed the project through in two years; it was inaugurated on 12 November 2011. Professor Spyros Pollalis designed it, Alexandros Samaras did the application study and Faidon Karydakis the structural study, with most of the roughly 2.5 million euro cost donated by shipowner Giorgos Prokopiou.

The bridge is named after Solon Karydakis, the 15-year-old Athens College student killed at this crossing in December 2009. At its midpoint, two paintings on the glass panels carry verses by Odysseas Elytis dedicated to him, and the pillars are shaped to hold art made by students. The college organises volunteer clean-ups of the bridge.

Access is possible by stairs, escalators or four lifts, two on each side. The escalators have often been out of service and the lifts are periodically vandalised, so the stairs may be the only working route. The College organises volunteer clean-ups of the bridge by its students.

The structure features an asymmetrical design where cables alternate from side to side, with the central section deliberately left without cables. This unusual approach gives the bridge an open, airy appearance above the busy roadway.