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A Private Tour of Portland's Forthcoming Car-Free Bridge
Tilikum Crossing, which will allow buses, bikes, walkers, and light rail but not private cars, will open in September.
Jonathan Maus of Bike Portland writes that for a few months now he's been "begging" the city's TriMet agency to let him tour Tilikum Crossing—the emerging 1,720-foot bridge that will allow buses, bikes, walkers, and light rail, but ban private cars. Last week officials relented and gave Maus and a colleague a private tour. The pictures he's posted (a few reused here with permission) show a fantastic multi-modal bridge in the making.
Some of Maus's insights: