The Sellwood Bridge is going to be replaced, with groundbreaking the summer of 2012. The current bridge is in such poor condition that it only scored a 2 out of 100 on the Federal Infrastructure scale. The bridge alos is very undersized for car, pedestrian, and bike traffic. The new bridge will cost $330 million, with Multnomah County picking up its share of the tab beginning this week with a new $19 vehicle registration fee increase. The citizen committee, along with architect Ricardo Rabines scored the
12 proposed designs for the bridge, using input from a 2400-person city-wide survey. The designs are all very different, ranging from the cheap and functional "Concrete Box Girder" to the iconic, highly-modern (and expensive) "Steel Extradosed."
This one was deemed the Ugliest:
And this one the Most Beautiful:
I agree, the second option is vastly superior to the first, and is in line with the rest of the bridges in Portland.
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