Category: Bridges

  • Completing my Personal “Tilikum Grand Slam”

    I’ll admit I had a head start. I enjoyed preview rides on both MAX and Streetcar. During yesterday’s opening festivities, I had the chance to cross both on MAX and on foot. And today I cycled east across our wonderful new bridge, and then made the return journey with my bike on the front of a…

  • Editorial: The Name for the Bridge

    I ran into Abigail Scott Duniway the other day.

  • Improving service to Swan Island?

    Longtime and frequent commenter Lenny Anderson pens an op-ed in the Oregonian on how riders can improve transit service. (Hint: Find more riders). Which brings me to a few thoughts on how best to serve Swan Island. A big problem with serving it is that it’s essentially a dead end. More accurately, it’s two dead…

  • The 15 finally returns to the Morrison Bridge! Great news, but more needs to be done.

    For nearly a year, the Morrison Bridge has been closed to westbound traffic so contractors could replace its hazardous steel-grate surface. The project, which was meant to end last November but was plagued by delays, not only disrupted life for auto commuters but also forced the westbound 15 bus to detour south to the Hawthorne…

  • “Bridge School”

    (Updated July 5th – Original version contained a typo. If you have embedded or posted a link to the original video, please update your links. Thank you.) Just prior to yesterday’s groundbreaking ceremony (video here) for the new transit bridge over the Willamette river, Rob Barnard, TriMet’s director of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project, gave…