Lol, I love it that you are into the engineering & design of Portland. Its a very unique city. My dad grew up in the Portland area. I lived there for 5 yrs. Dad used to say that you had to go thru MacDonald's backyard to get onto the west end of the Ross Island bridge, lol. It was truely rediculous. Wonder if it has changed? He also said that the streets & lanes were so narrow because they were built for Model T cars! Ha ha, indian trails & wagon roads! Good one! One of my most embarrassing moments was coming home from work & running out of gas on the Sellwood bridge. Didnt quite make it to the top of the arch, so was unable to coast down the other side. Finally, a cop car arrived & he told me I was blocking traffic on the west side for 5 miles! He used the rack on the front of his car to push my truck over the hump, where I coasted onto a side street & then he gave me a ride home in the back of the cruiser. I imagine all the neighbors are still talking about the time I was escorted home in the back of a cop car! That wasnt the last time either. There are no door handles back there, so its kinda scary! Im always going on about how things are engineered. I enjoy building stacked rock walls & stuff along those lines. I see when roads are banked the wrong way, etc. I now live near a mine where they built an oar haul road with an overpass across an existing highway. The traffic now drives thru a tunnel engineered & built by the mine, which looks extremely sketchy! Highway building components were not used. On opening, I stopped & took a picture of a huge crack in the bricks at the peak of the arch that was truely terrifying & widens by the day! Myself & many others in the area will lay rubber coming to a screeching halt on the steep downhill 55 mph highway to avoid going thru that tunnel while it is being crossed by an oar truck with 300 TONS of oar in it! Im also an ex jw, so appreciate your content.
The Ross Island Bridge is still absolutely ridiculous to navigate and approach coming from the west or east to the west end of it. I had to drive that a handful of times this February, and the first couple times it's really intimidating. Wound up the first time through being the in the wrong lane thinking you couldn't go south onto I-5 to get to Farmington (BH is the name that shall not be used haha) to get back home. Turned out, that wasn't correct so even Google Maps has the labels wrong because there is too much going on on the west end of the bridge. It's brutal! And I remember the old Sellwood bridge well, though mainly as a pedestrian with acrophobia and a strong disgust towards the Willamette River for how polluted it is. I was like a paranoid horseless jockey walking across it both ways. I have no experience at all with it's new replacement, though. The Sellwood was always a bottleneck bridge for how narrow it was, and having all but no approach from/to Macadam. I'd definitely be avoiding that mine tunnel haha. I'll take the long way around, thank you! I'm glad you get some enjoyment and value from the content I've been producing lately. That's the goal, knowing that there is always people out there who can relate, understand, learn or otherwise gain value of other forms from it! Me thinks the GB misunderstood Dues Vult as "Dues Cult!" What do you think? haha
Lol, I love it that you are into the engineering & design of Portland. Its a very unique city. My dad grew up in the Portland area. I lived there for 5 yrs. Dad used to say that you had to go thru MacDonald's backyard to get onto the west end of the Ross Island bridge, lol. It was truely rediculous. Wonder if it has changed? He also said that the streets & lanes were so narrow because they were built for Model T cars! Ha ha, indian trails & wagon roads! Good one! One of my most embarrassing moments was coming home from work & running out of gas on the Sellwood bridge. Didnt quite make it to the top of the arch, so was unable to coast down the other side. Finally, a cop car arrived & he told me I was blocking traffic on the west side for 5 miles! He used the rack on the front of his car to push my truck over the hump, where I coasted onto a side street & then he gave me a ride home in the back of the cruiser. I imagine all the neighbors are still talking about the time I was escorted home in the back of a cop car! That wasnt the last time either. There are no door handles back there, so its kinda scary!
Im always going on about how things are engineered. I enjoy building stacked rock walls & stuff along those lines. I see when roads are banked the wrong way, etc. I now live near a mine where they built an oar haul road with an overpass across an existing highway. The traffic now drives thru a tunnel engineered & built by the mine, which looks extremely sketchy! Highway building components were not used. On opening, I stopped & took a picture of a huge crack in the bricks at the peak of the arch that was truely terrifying & widens by the day! Myself & many others in the area will lay rubber coming to a screeching halt on the steep downhill 55 mph highway to avoid going thru that tunnel while it is being crossed by an oar truck with 300 TONS of oar in it!
Im also an ex jw, so appreciate your content.
The Ross Island Bridge is still absolutely ridiculous to navigate and approach coming from the west or east to the west end of it. I had to drive that a handful of times this February, and the first couple times it's really intimidating. Wound up the first time through being the in the wrong lane thinking you couldn't go south onto I-5 to get to Farmington (BH is the name that shall not be used haha) to get back home. Turned out, that wasn't correct so even Google Maps has the labels wrong because there is too much going on on the west end of the bridge. It's brutal!
And I remember the old Sellwood bridge well, though mainly as a pedestrian with acrophobia and a strong disgust towards the Willamette River for how polluted it is. I was like a paranoid horseless jockey walking across it both ways. I have no experience at all with it's new replacement, though. The Sellwood was always a bottleneck bridge for how narrow it was, and having all but no approach from/to Macadam.
I'd definitely be avoiding that mine tunnel haha. I'll take the long way around, thank you!
I'm glad you get some enjoyment and value from the content I've been producing lately. That's the goal, knowing that there is always people out there who can relate, understand, learn or otherwise gain value of other forms from it! Me thinks the GB misunderstood Dues Vult as "Dues Cult!" What do you think? haha