With acceptance of grant, City can finally build the Flanders Crossing Bridge
A long time coming indeed.
Ned Flanders Crossing
New path in Waterfront Park part of Naito’s emerging role in bike network
A peek into a more bike-friendly future for downtown.
Carfree bridge across I-405 at NW Flanders wins $2.8 million state grant
At long last, Flanders will see its potential as a bike street realized.
State will likely fund Flanders Crossing of 405, spurring thousands of bike trips in NW
By 2019, it could be carrying more bikes than the Hawthorne Bridge.
Portland-region committee gives middling marks to NW Flanders bridge project
The bridge was scored far below a parking lot that would help export cars to China.
The Flanders Crossing could be the city’s best bridge project in many years
The bridge would finally activate the fabled Flanders Street neighborhood greenway.
First look at city’s plans for bike/walk bridge over I-405 at Flanders
The dream of the Flanders bikeway is alive in Portland.
Here are the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee’s top 10 priorities citywide
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Adams: Final thoughts on Sauvie and the “massive new transportation challenge facing our City”
Commissioner Adams during an interview in October 2007.(Photo © J. Maus) In a letter sent out this morning to subscribers of his email newsletter, City Commissioner Sam Adams summed up PDOT’s budget woes and made some final statements on the defunct Sauvie Island Bridge re-use plan (I think the statement will also be published as … Read more
Dozono says he’s the reason Adams scrapped Sauvie span plan
“If I was not running for Mayor and challenging City Hall’s spending, my opponent would have continued to ram-rod this pet project through”–Sho Dozono Not surprisingly, Commissioners Adams’ opponent in the race for mayor, Sho Dozono, has issued a statement in response to Adams’ decision to pull the plug on the plan to re-use the … Read more
“With a heavy heart” Adams explains Sauvie decision
Adams addressed the media in his office this morning.(Photos © J. Maus) In a cramped meeting room in his office a few minutes ago, Commissioner Adams explained how rising gas prices have impacted PDOT’s transportation budget and that the Sauvie Island Bridge span reuse project is the first casualty. Standing next to PDOT Director Sue … Read more
Exclusive: Adams will scrap Sauvie span project
“I don’t feel comfortable moving forward at this point.”–Commissioner Sam Adams City of Portland Commissioner Sam Adams will announce tomorrow (5/7) that he will pull the plug on a plan to re-use the Sauvie Island Bridge span as a bicycle and pedestrian crossing over I-405 in Northwest Portland.
Comment of the Week: Gratitude for N/NE Broadway project