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TriMet Restores Bus Service Over Rebuilt Bridge

With the reconstruction of the Sellwood Bridge over the Willamette River, Portland’s Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) will change a bus route to provide direct service across the bridge—for the first time in 12 years—beginning Dec. 5.

“Returning bus service across the Sellwood Bridge has been over a decade in the making,” said TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane. “We celebrate the completion of this impressive bridge project and look forward to providing new and more direct connections for our riders.”

TriMet suspended service across the two-lane bridge, then 79 years old, in 2004, when county officials lowered the vehicle weight limit to prolong the lifespan of the structure, which required TriMet to reroute service to another bridge. As a result, some communities lost direct service (i.e. one-seat trip) to downtown Portland and Marquam Hill, site of three major medical institutions.
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