{"id":2509,"date":"2012-08-27T20:21:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T03:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2012-08-27T20:21:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T03:21:12","slug":"replacing-the-pudding-river-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2012\/replacing-the-pudding-river-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing the Pudding River Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the county (Marion? Clackamas?) is planning to replace our nice, old, unique, historic, bent bridge across the Pudding River, eh? <\/p>\n<p>You know, the one east of Hubbard (Oregon, naturally) on Whiskey Hill Road.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing it is fine and dandy with me&#8230;provided they leave it there. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<p>They could restrict access to foot traffic, put picnic tables on it, and so forth. Of course, they would have to put the new bridge a few feet upstream from it. <!--more--> (Downstream? Sure, I don&#8217;t care.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great idea, eh?<\/strong> Yeah, I agree. Anyway, today they put up a sign:<\/p>\n<div class=\"capt-pix\"><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/bridge-closure-sign.jpg\" title=\"Pudding River bridge: closure sign\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/bridge-closure-sign.jpg\" alt=\"Pudding River bridge closure sign\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Don&#8217;t try to come through here at night on those dates!<\/i><\/div>\n<p>And started poking a vertical hole in the roadway:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Early Preparations to Replace Pudding River Bridge\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BipCwS42HRk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, four more photos I took this afternoon:<\/p>\n<div class=\"capt-pix\"><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/road-to-bridge.jpg\" title=\"Pudding River bridge: something's going on there\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/road-to-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Eastbound road to Pudding River bridge\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Approaching the Pudding River bridge from the west<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"capt-pix\"><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/pudding-river-bridge-drilling.jpg\" title=\"Pudding River bridge: drillers at work\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/pudding-river-bridge-drilling.jpg\" alt=\"drillers at work near the Pudding River bridge\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>What&#8217;s with drilling a vertical hole in the roadway?!<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"capt-pix\"><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/pudding-river-bridge-cones.jpg\" title=\"Pudding River bridge: there it is!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/pudding-river-bridge-cones.jpg\" alt=\"cones on the Pudding River bridge\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Historic Pudding River Bridge, Hubbard, Oregon<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"capt-pix\"><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/drillers-at-pudding-river-bridge.jpg\" title=\"Pudding River bridge: drilling away, they are\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/drillers-at-pudding-river-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"drillers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Looking for water? Go east a little further and use a bucket!<\/i><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty exciting to see this post-surveying phase of the project. But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:125%; color:red; text-align:center; font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif\"><strong>Save Our Pudding River Bridge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, please help me get the word out. <em>Thanks!<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the county (Marion? Clackamas?) is planning to replace our nice, old, unique, historic, bent bridge across the Pudding River, eh? You know, the one east of Hubbard (Oregon, naturally) on Whiskey Hill Road. Replacing it is fine and dandy with me&#8230;provided they leave it there. \ud83d\ude2f They could restrict access to foot traffic, put &#8230; <a title=\"Replacing the Pudding River Bridge\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2012\/replacing-the-pudding-river-bridge\/\" aria-label=\"More on Replacing the Pudding River Bridge\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[696,1016,24],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-history","tag-hubbard","tag-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Et","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}