OUESTION: What do the OHSU Tram and bicycle infrastructure have in common?
ANSWER: The costs keep rising. Both have platinum price tags. The tram cost is currently at 55 million plus. As for bicycle infrastructure; the costs are far more than a miniscule amount of any budget. Here are but a few examples: $165,000.00 (15 percent of eleven million) for exclusive bike lanes on Naito Parkway that will take up approximately 15 percent of the street surface, 3.6 million dollars for the proposal to convert NW Flanders into a bicycle boulevard and 1.5 Million for Morrison Bridge bike lanes. Other examples include millions of transportation dollars spent for the East Bank Esplanade transportation corridor and Steel Bridge connection (shared with pedestrians), to widen the sidewalks on the Hawthorne Bridge to accommodate bicycles that wiz by pedestrians at a high rate of speed, for the Portland International Airport area bicycle infrastructure, connections and paths, for the NE Tillamook Street make over into a bicycle boulevard, and to clean bike lanes including those on the Hawthorne Bridge approaches so bicyclists don