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.”