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Sellwood Bridge Field Work Update

TRAFFIC ALERTS

• Recent Traffic Congestion:  Morning traffic jams occurred in the project area this week on Monday and Thursday.  The cause was a malfunctioning traffic signal at SW Nevada and SW Macadam, north of the project.  The City of Portland is working to fix the signal, which went into a “Flash” mode that caused each vehicle to stop.  This work is not related to the bridge project.
• Hwy. 43 Lane Closures: The outside southbound lane of Hwy. 43 is closed nights and most of the day (except from 4 pm to 7 pm) weekdays between SW Taylors Ferry Road and the project limits south of the bridge while the contractor excavates the hillside west of the highway. The week of May 6, Hwy. 43 traffic will be reduced to a single lane in each direction on weeknights north of the bridge.

For safety, we urge bridge users not to cut through the narrow residential streets in the Sellwood area to dodge commute traffic.

Meeting with Sellwood Bridge Artist May 1

Mikyoung Kim returns to Portland to meet with the Sellwood community to present her plan for the Sellwood Bridge Gateway Public Art Project. Kim, an award-winning international landscape architect and artist has completed projects as diverse civic gardens and municipal playgrounds to large scale parks and institutional master plans and was selected by a panel of local artists, community representatives and project team members. Her concept, "Stratum Project," is a "series of ecologically inspired geologic sculptural totems. Layers of various recycled and formed materials create a quilted surface that represents earth, water and sky as the gateway to the Sellwood Community". The multi-part installation will line both sides of the block just east of the bridge, up to 6th and Tacoma.

Sellwood Bridge Field Work Update

TRAFFIC ALERTS

Hwy. 43 Lane Closures: The outside southbound lane of Hwy. 43 is closed nights and most of the day (except from 4 pm to 7 pm) weekdays between SW Taylors Ferry Road and the project limits south of the bridge while the contractor excavates the hillside west of the highway. The week of April 29, Hwy. 43 traffic will be reduced to a single lane in each direction on weeknights north of the bridge (see retaining walls below).

For safety, we urge bridge users not to cut through the narrow residential streets in the Sellwood area to dodge commute traffic.

Local students share Sellwood Bridge landslide models with county board

Five high school seniors from the ACE Academy in Northeast Portland presented two models of the Sellwood Bridge landslide mitigation at the April 23 meeting of the Board of County Commissioners.

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