A Metro committee voted this morning to advocate $141.6 million to a wide range of transportation applications, plans, and tasks. The funding comes from two federal grant applications and are generally known as Regional Versatile Funds.
Among the many $49.3 million in capital tasks beneficial for funding was $8.7 million for the Historic Trolley Path Bridge between Gladstone and Oregon Metropolis. This $10.4 million challenge will erect a brand new, carfree bridge over the Clackamas River and supply the lacking hyperlink of the Trolley Path. The bridge alignment will join an on-street portion of the Trolley Path route on Portland Avenue in Gladstone on to the Clackamas River Path and Trolley Path path in Oregon Metropolis.
The Gladstone Trolley Path Bridge initially opened in 1908 (see above) and served passenger and freight electrical railway vehicles till 2014 when harm pressured its closure. Again then, Metro and different regional path advocates hoped the previous bridge may very well be rebuilt and used for a rail-trail. But it surely was too closely broken and was faraway from the river that very same 12 months.
The brand new crossing will give rollers and walkers a way more direct and safer route alongside the Trolley Path. An current carfree bridge only a half-mile to the east (at 82nd Dr) provides a mile to the route, and using on McLoughlin Blvd (99E) could be very anxious. As soon as the brand new bridge is in place it’s estimated to see 489,000 annual customers and scale back 12 tons of greenhouse gasoline emissions per 12 months. Mixed with the present 82nd Drive bridge, it would present a carfree riverfront loop.
Metro’s Transportation Coverage Advisory Committee (TPAC) voted to dedicate $8.7 million grant to the challenge, thus competing funding. Metro says remaining design and development are prone to start this 12 months.
In the identical vote, $92.3 million was awarded to a mixture of region-wide transportation program investments like Protected Routes to College, Transit Oriented Improvement, and hall planning. Of that, $51.7 million was awarded to bonding commitments for a set of tasks that features: TriMet’s 82nd Avenue Transit Mission, TriMet’s Tualatin Valley Freeway Transit Mission, Portland Streetcar Montgomery Park Extension, ODOT’s Dawn-Gateway Hall Mission, and the County’s Earthquake Prepared Burnside Bridge Mission.
Different tasks beneficial for funding this morning embrace:
NE 223rd Ave: NE Glisan to NE Marine Dr Security Hall Planning Multnomah County – $897,300
NE Glisan St: 82nd Avenue Multimodal Security and Entry Portland – $7,577,698
NW Division Avenue Full Avenue: Gresham-Fairview Path – Birdsdale Avenue Gresham – $4,067,495
NE MLK Jr Blvd Security and Entry to Transit Portland – $4,879,517
Cedar Mill Higher Bus and Entry to Transit Enhancements Washington County – $5,252,300
Westside Path Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge Over Freeway 26 Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation District – $5,000,000
North Dakota Avenue (Fanno Creek) Bridge Alternative Tigard – $8,000,000
Railroad Avenue Multiuse Path: thirty seventh Avenue to Linwood Avenue Milwaukie – $2,707,217
OR99E (McLoughlin Boulevard) tenth Avenue to tumwata village: Streetscapes Enhancements Mission Improvement Oregon Metropolis – $2,232,341
From TPAC, the beneficial tasks will transfer to Metro’s Joint Coverage Advisory Committee on Transportation (JPACT) after which to Metro Council the place they’ll be formally adopted later this 12 months.
Keep tuned for extra on every of those tasks!
