Portland Transport

Category: Bridges

  • Bridge Gets its Own Web Site

    That’s right. The Sellwood Bridge now has its very own web site, courtesy of County Commissioner Maria Rojo de Steffey.

  • Bridge Analogy

    Up in Vancouver, B.C. (where I will be for the next couple of days, with a group from Metro), Gordon Price is complaining that a proposed bridge will cause land use and transportation problems throughout the region that the proponents refuse to acknowledge or analyze. Gee, I can’t think of anything like that down here.

  • Bridge Update

    In today’s O, Jim Mayer takes stock at year 3 of the decade-long project to bring Oregon’s bridges up to snuff.

  • Sauvie Island Bridge Headed for the Scrap Heap

    Word just in from Commissioner Sam Adams’ office that efforts to move the Sauvie Island Bridge to NW Portland to complete a bikeway on Flanders Street over I-405 are being dropped. The Commissioner’s office indicates that community response was not sufficient to justify the extra cost of moving the bridge (rather than constructing a smaller-but-to-code…

  • Burnside Bridge Mid-Week Closure

    Update: Apparently they found the concrete. The bridge will be closed Tuesday to Friday. The Burnside Bridge will be closed to road traffic from 8:00 pm on Tuesday, May 2 until 6:00 am on Friday, May 5 to allow a contractor to pour a concrete sidewalk on the new lift span deck. Update: the closure…