- Flickr user "parks."
The City Club of Portland is a local institution that allows a venue for wealthy and/or important people (and the rest of us, in theory) to commission studies of local trends and governance, and adopt recommendations for how to fix stuff that isn't looking too hot.
On Friday, July 30, the club will host a discussion (unsubtly titled "Portland's Bridges Falling Down") on whether the city's bridges should be managed by a regional authority. This is one of the recommendations of a recent study (PDF) that looked at the region's transportation infrastructure. In brief:
The report considers three categories of regional and local transportation facilities: the Willamette River bridges, regional roads and local streets, and transit. It discusses the creation of a bridge authority affiliated with Metro and a funding source to support the authority.
This bears an uncanny resemblance to the club's recommendation on what to do with Forest Park, released in a May report. Read on after the jump.