Burnside Bridge — Attraction in Portland

There are plenty other bridges in town that are more interesting than this one. (Check out the new pedestrian bridge or the Hawthorne bridge, for example.) But, this bridge can be handy. First off, rarely do they raise it ... only when the navy fleet, for example, arrives or leaves for the Rose Parade. Secondly it is wide ... which is useful if you want to bike or walk ... and not deal with vertigo issues or other heavy non-car traffic. The rerouting they've done on the Eastside has made entrance onto the bridge easier (and safer) in recent years. Do keep an eye out for glass if you're biking across. If you're biking over to downtown, my suggestion would be to take a lower SE street to cross over to Burnside, and then to circle back onto the bridge to make your way into the business of...

Burnside Bridge needs Construction. Good thing it is happening Right now. There’s some fence wall that has a crack and it’s falling apart and the Sidewalk was just about to Collapsed and the Bridge will Collapsed too. Or they might need to build a new bridge. At some point there will be a Major 9.2 Earthquake that will destroy the Bridge and nobody should be crossing. There a Video that shows the Bridge Shaking during the Earthquake. The Bridge had to be Narrow Down to 3 Lanes. One Lane going West and 2 Lanes going East.

During Martin Luster King Day is to go on MLK Blvd on MLK Day in Portland to celebrate the Holiday. He was the good guy but passed away...

A signature landmark and a critical thoroughfare, the Burnside Bridge is undergoing construction work at the moment, which definitely detracts from both of the aforementioned qualities. Still, it's sufficiently functional to permit traffic, and you can't miss it from either side of the river. Occasionally there will be river traffic which requires the bridge to be raised, at which point you'll be sitting in a queue with a legion of other vehicles and pedestrians watching the bridge do its thing and taking bets on whether anyone is crazy enough to try a Blues Brothers-style jump. Thus far, no one's tried, which is...