Building 'bridge to nowhere' in Milwaukie!!

Once feared of becoming the"ugliest bridge in America,” now the bridge TriMet is building may be the country’s most useless, at least for people trying to cross it on foot or by bike without an extra leap of faith. Local residents in 2011 panned TriMet’s design for a 1,675-foot-long light-rail bridge across Kellogg Lake, but its look got an aesthetic redesign. The bridge also gained favor with a concept for adding a parallel structure underneath to connect Lake Road with the Trolley Trail walkers and bikers. In 2012, city leaders celebrated getting the Oregon Department of Transportation to approve $1 million in Transportation Enhancement funds for the multi-use structure under the light-rail bridge being built across Kellogg Lake.
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Building 'bridge to nowhere' in Milwaukie??

Once feared of becoming the"ugliest bridge in America,” now the bridge TriMet is building may be the country’s most useless, at least for people trying to cross it on foot or by bike without an extra leap of faith. Local residents in 2011 panned TriMet’s design for a 1,675-foot-long light-rail bridge across Kellogg Lake, but its look got an aesthetic redesign. The bridge also gained favor with a concept for adding a parallel structure underneath to connect Lake Road with the Trolley Trail walkers and bikers. In 2012, city leaders celebrated getting the Oregon Department of Transportation to approve $1 million in Transportation Enhancement funds for the multi-use structure under the light-rail bridge being built across Kellogg Lake. Milwaukie is responsible for an estimated $1 million shortfall to construct the bridge, according to its contract. Federal and state agencies are funneling $1.2 million through TriMet to complete the bridge, and, so far, Milwaukie has only allocated $200,000 more.
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Portland-to-Milwaukie Orange Line station gets Earth Cast For $1,000,000

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) - The Portland-to-Milwaukie light rail line now has sculptures installed at one of its future stations. The cost of this one sculpture is One Million Dollars. Do You Think Tri-Met and Metro are growing beyond their means?
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Major Highway Shut Down For Light Rail Construction

Published on Aug 17, 2013
Hwy 99/McLoughlin Blvd. in Milwaukie, OR, just south of Portland gets shut down for the weekend to make way for the overpass that the $1.5 Billion choo choo train will be using to give some schlup at Tri Met a job, while carrying a few passengers who probably didn't even pay to ride it. The citizens of Clackamas county have been fighting this overpriced disaster for years, but were no match for the millions of dollars in backroom deals for the unions and Stacy & Witbeck to pay off the politicians to shove this down everyone's throats.


By: William Saunderson