I don't know for sure if this is the Portland Business Journal's annual joke edition or not. Could someone please tell me if this story is for real? The content seems like it's a parody of the so called "sustainability" * mindset.
*sustainability: whatever that means
Pearl wants Sauvie Bridge
Sauvie Island Bridge may find new life as a bike/pedestrian span
Portland Business Journal - July 20, 2007
by Andy Giegerich
Taking sustainability to drastic new levels, the city of Portland wants to spend $5 million to move the Sauvie Island Bridge to the Pearl District. That's twice the cost it would take to build a new bridge in the Pearl altogether.
The neighbors and the city aim to create an Interstate 405 overpass connecting the Pearl and the Northwest 23rd Avenue area at Northwest Flanders Street. Once installed, the structure would limit its traffic to bicycles and pedestrians, serving as the centerpiece of a proposed Flanders Street "bike boulevard."
4 comments:
I wonder what the toll will be on the bridge to help pay for moving it?
Why shouldn't they pay a toll as well like they are talking doing to build a new I-5 new bridge?
Do I hear bicyclists and pedrestrains crying foul over their having to pay a toll on a bridge only they can use, if inacted?
Earl Blumenauer
With the cost of two 100-ton cranes to lift the bridge from its footings and to set it back in place over I-405, the cost of the trucking company to move it those 8 or 10 miles, the cost of two or maybe three flag cars, the cost of building the new footings and approaches at the new location, the various building and hauling permits, the labor costs for all the laborers needed at either end of the project, and many other costs associated with such a stupid idea, the City of Portland is looking at at least $5 million, all paid for by the Portland taxpayers. The people of Portland can look for Tommy Potter to impose some kind of tax to help pay for this idiocy. It would be a lot more cost effective to just dismantle the old bridge and haul it off to wherever old bridges go for recycling and salvage of the old steel. There a number of streets over and under I-405 for the bike riders to get from one side of 405 to the other.
And, one other thing: You can bet that, if this stupidity actually goes through, the bike riders will not have to pay a damn dime toward the cost.
This thing has the stench of Tommy Potter all over it. Is anyone surprised??????
In my post above, I said that Tommy Potter would impose some kind of tax to pay for this thing. I should have included the City Council in this And, here is the important thing: Such a tax would be shoved down the throats of the people of Portland WITHOUT those people being allowed to vote on it.
As I stated above, the stink of Tommy the Tyrant and the Toadies is all over this.
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