Sellwood South
The San Francisco Bay Bridge is back open this morning after a nasty six-day closure, imposed when wind trashed a recent emergency repair job and endangered lives. And apparently another closure of that heavily traveled span will be needed soon.
We Portlanders can be grateful that we live in a place where the bridges are all relatively new and in good repair -- and that we never get strong storms.
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Only every half century or so.. give or take a few years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day_Storm_of_1962
And then I think the big quake followed in 1963. Meanwhile PDOT looks like it will demand streetcar tracks on any new Sellwood bridge. That should keep a new bridge on hold a while longer.
Go by streetcar! Heck! Just walk, it's about as fast.
Posted by Don | November 3, 2009 9:57 AM
Yeah, leave the I-5 bridge to Vancouver alone. Just run ferries for the overflow. But fix/replace the Sellwood yesterday!
Posted by RANZ | November 3, 2009 10:43 AM
...But those ferries would have to run on biodiesel and have special bicycle access, of course.
Posted by notapottedplant | November 3, 2009 12:08 PM
Monorail -- Italian for streetcar?
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/02/a-solar-powered-monorail-system-for-bologna/#
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | November 3, 2009 1:16 PM