Sauvie Island Bridge Turned Bike Bridge: Toll It

April 24, 2008

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We’re so poor we can’t even fill potholes in Portland. That’s why we “need” a 1/2 BILLION dollar tax on cars. But now we discover that part of the money to buy the lead paint bearing old Sauvie Island Bridge to convert it into a ‘bike bridge’ at 16th and NW Flanders will come from that tax. ‘Scuse me?
Considering that every other “transportation” “plan” around here seems to involve sticking it to the car drivers (sorry, you can’t have freedom–not when “global warming” is at stake), why not have turn about as fair play: Toll the Bike Bridge, license bicyclists, and make sure there are HOV bike lanes installed.
See that picture? Andrew Hall has great pictures of bridges at portlandbridges.com.

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