The first part of this comment could only be made by someone who did not read the whole article.

Tyler was not saying there was no point to having that bridge. He was saying given how other bridges were placed according to important landmarks, he did not understand why this one was placed in this location seemingly without any important landmarks.

You can believe more bridges should exist without needing some sort of important landmark and believe that it is strange this bridge was placed in this location without an important landmark given the other bridges were placed in locations with important landmarks. These two things are not mutually exclusive.

Of course it turned out that there was an important landmark (the school/church!) but that was Tyler's thought process.