I've just finished contacting the Director of ODOT to see what he can do by using jail labor to clean the decks and bushes off the bridge. I've known the director since I was 8 years old. I hope I pulled a bit and some day soon, we will see this bridge cleared off and at least in static condition.
The modern bridge is from 1968. I wonder if anything has been done to the old bridge in the last 50 years.
Multnomah County, Oregon is monumentally derelict in failing to clean up this bridge, let alone attempt to restore it.
The deck is carrying too much weight with tons of dirt, moss and trees on the deck. If all these things continue to accumulate, this bridge will collapse in the next 10 years.
Whether it be ODOT, PDOT, MCDOT in charge of this property, they are all criminally derelict.
The decay is Beautiful