Portland Transport

Category: Bridges

  • Moving the Sauvie Island Bridge

    Over at CommissionerSam.com, they’re discussing the economics of moving the old Sauvie Island Bridge to I-405 to use as part of the Flanders bike/ped corridor. Share your thoughts there.

  • Third Time the Charm?

    After being rained out two weeks in a row, Multnomah County is going to try one more time this weekend to close the Burnside Bridge to setup for the upcoming maintence project. Good luck…

  • Bridge Work Rained Out… Again

    The weekend closure of the Burnside Bridge to change lane marking for the upcoming maintence work is rained out for the second weekend in a row. The plan is now for next weekend…

  • Updated: A Pain the Bridge

    Update: This weekend’s closure has been postponded due to the weather, and tentatively rescheduled to next weekend For those of us who just finally got that sense of relief that two years of maintenance on the Broadway Bridge are over (or who suffered through the projects on the Hawthorne or Ross Island bridges before), here…

  • Sellwood Bridge: Can’t Get No Respect

    I recently attended a meeting of the Portland Freight Advisory Committee, where the Freight Master Plan was being reviewed. Once again, the Sellwood Bridge came up. The line of discussion: it’s not a freight project, so don’t list it as a project it in the master plan, and certainly don’t spend any funds targeted on…