TRAFFIC ALERT: On Thursday, Oct. 16 and Friday, Oct. 17, between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., expect multiple Broadway Bridge lifts. There will be some delays for south sidewalk usage. Crews will be installing cable attachments and will need to have the bridge lift span fully open. Expect multiple bridge lifts during these hours. Lifts will last about 15 minutes. As a reminder, the Broadway Bridge is closed to all cars, trucks, buses and the Portland Streetcar for the next six months to replace the bridge deck. The south sidewalk will remain open throughout the majority of this closure.
This work is part of the Broadway Bridge Lift Deck Replacement Project. A contractor will be replacing the bridge deck – that’s the surface you drive on, of the movable section of the bridge. In order to do the work, the contractor will remove small sections of the bridge deck, one at a time, to ensure that the movable bridge sections remain carefully balanced and can be opened to river traffic as required by law. New streetcar tracks will also be installed in the section of the bridge deck being replaced. For information, visit: https://multco.us/info/broadway-bridge-lift-deck-replacement.
Multnomah County maintains five Willamette River bridges: the Sellwood, Hawthorne, Morrison, Burnside and Broadway Bridges as well as the Wapato Bridge over the Multnomah Channel. For information, visit https://www.multco.us/bridges.