Tugboats at play
Now that Tri-Met is actually working on building the trolley line down to Milwaukie (you can take my spluttering complaints about the $130 million/mile cost as read; the layers and layers of graft that surround public works in this country are pretty shameless, and it doesn’t help to know that this is an order of magnitude less than what’s being proposed to the replacement I-5 Columbia River bridge) there’s suddenly a whole bundle of maritime traffic between the Marquam & Ross Island bridges. There are tugboats galore, and if you’re down there with a camera at the right time of the day you can see traffic that looks dimly like Portland’s glory days.