Sunday, September 14, 2014

Portland: new bridge prohibits passage of automobiles

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The city of Portland, in the United States, will receive in 2015 a bridge where they spend all ... except cars. Called Tilijum Crossing, Bridge of the People â€" "people's bridge" in Portuguese â€" the infrastructure will be inaugurated in the fall of next year and will cost €105 million ($ 300 million).

The bridge, which will be the first built in the city since the Fremont Bridge in 1973, can lead a new phase in the construction of these infrastructures: is that she does not allow the passage of vehicles, only public buses, lightrail, trams, cyclists and pedestrians.

The only vehicles allowed on the bridge are the emergency-and that makes perfect sense, of course. With 5.1 miles long, the Bridge of the People started out as a bridge to the lightrail, stretching, then, for the other soft modes.

"This is an act of urban planning, maybe more than one transit project," explained Dan Blocher, executive director of TriMet. The bridge follows directly to the South Waterfront area, a former industrial area which is today an eco-neighborhood-housing options are more efficient than in other areas of Portland, there are biological markets and numerous public transport offerings.

"This bridge is not for everyone. Many like to drive due to their timetables, because they have children and other arguments. But for all that are in the public transport system, is another car off the streets, "explains Blocher. "We have to look at the transportation system as a whole".

The new bridge will be the sixth of Portland, a path that began in 1910 with the Hawthorne bridge, the oldest of the United States with vertical elevation.

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