Burnside Bridge to close for Sunday morning run June 28th
The Burnside Bridge will close to street and river traffic on Sunday morning, June 28 during the annual Beat the Burnside run. The bridge, which is the finish line for the run, will be closed to street traffic from 6:00 am to 10:00 am. The bridge lift span will not open for river traffic from 8:40 am to 10:00 am. The bridge will remain open to bicyclists and pedestrians except during a brief bridge opening at the end of the race.
During the closure, TriMet bus lines 12-Sandy, 19-Glisan, and 20-Burnside will be rerouted across the Morrison Bridge.
Also this weekend, the traffic pattern on the Hawthorne Bridge will change due to the removal of a construction crane in downtown Portland at SW First Ave. and SW Main St. From 7:00 pm on Friday, June 26 until as late as 5:00 am on Monday, June 29 only one traffic lane will be open in each direction on the bridge. Westbound traffic will be diverted from the bridge onto SW Madison St. which will have two-way traffic between SW 1st Ave. and SW 2nd Ave. The westbound offramp from the bridge to SW Main St. will be closed due to the crane removal. Flaggers will direct traffic at the west end of the bridge during the weekend.
Multnomah County maintains the Burnside and Hawthorne bridges and more than 300 miles of roads and bridges.
Posted on June 24, 2009
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