Personally, I'm all for improved safety standards. And I very much appreciate the wide pedestrian and bike lanes on the new Sellwood bridge. I used to bike acro

Personally, I'm all for improved safety standards. And I very much appreciate the wide pedestrian and bike lanes on the new Sellwood bridge. I used to bike across the Sellwood regularly and it was a nerve-wracking experience. It's interesting that the Sellwood bridge was so much more expensive than Tilikum (2.4x as much, not 3x, according to my quick search). I wonder why that was? I'm not a civil engineer, but if I were to guess, I would guess that it's a combination of the new Sellwood interchange and the need to deal with the existing bridge.