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Sunday, August 14, 2011
portland is too crazy!...shuting down all these bridges for friggin bikes..city in gridlock!....taking me almost an hour to get across to NE
Actually, I think what they could do is spread the riders out by not having formal start/finish points and time so that there could be (at least) one lane of traffic allowed in each direction on the bridges. Traffic could be flagged through one lane of the Sellwood. The freeway bridges would still be one-way.
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Please - you're talking about 3-4 hours, 1 Sunday a year.
Don't worry, the other 364.83 days (99.95%) of the year it's all yours!
... and even during that 3-4 hours, some bridges were not affected at all (Morrison, Steel). Most (all?) others were open in 1 direction.
They wanna do a bike ride?
DO IT 3-5AM SUNDAY MORNINGS!
Damn, screwing everybody so they can have some "fun' on the bridge!
Close the bridges on Christmas eve at 3am-5am!
I wonder if more traffic delay is caused by the bridge pedal or by your average day of rush hour traffic.
Seriously, it would be interesting to find out the answer.
Actually, I think what they could do is spread the riders out by not having formal start/finish points and time so that there could be (at least) one lane of traffic allowed in each direction on the bridges. Traffic could be flagged through one lane of the Sellwood. The freeway bridges would still be one-way.
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