Fixing the Bridge Rail


By Bryan Dorr
Monday, 24 May 2010 at 23:07 PT

This is an image of a couple of bridge maintenance workers in a maintenance basket, doing repair work on the pedestrian/bike path railing. I’m not sure what events took place that led up to having to repair the railing on the Hawthorne Bridge.

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2 Responses to “Fixing the Bridge Rail”

  1. -b- Says:
    25 May 2010 at 06:17 PT

    I actually saw this incident. I was driving across the Hawthorne yesterday evening, coming back from a routine run, and suddenly I heard a loud scraping, banging noise behind me in the outside lane. I looked back and saw that a taxi had somehow run entirely up onto the sidewalk, and its front bumper was all torn up. I'm assuming it skidded on the wet metal grate of the bridge deck, but I didn't see that part. I guess it must have damaged the bridge railing in the process. At least they didn't go off the bridge, or hit any pedestrians or bikes.

    If I'd been in that taxi, I don't think I'd have wanted to pay for a ride quite that exciting.

  2. PDXWerewolf Says:
    01 June 2010 at 11:30 PT

    That's a pretty deep curb to get a taxi up and over onto the walkway.

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