Picked up a video called "Oregon Covered Bridges" at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport today. It is a video tour of more than 50 of Oregon's covered bridges organized by county. The Lane County tour begins in Cottage Grove. It talks about each of our area's covered bridges and includes shots of the Opal mural that has a covered bridge in it, as well as a shot of the old Opal park with its little covered bridge, which was built from timbers from the old covered bridge that is now in Myrtle Creek.
What happened to that little covered bridge? Kids used to love to play on it.
The video also talks about the Chambers Railroad covered bridge, the poor condition of which is noted in sad tones by the narrator. Won't the makers of this video be happy to know we have a $1.3 million federal grant to re-build it? Some people think that's a waste of money, but I don't. Work was originally supposed to start this summer with the systematic disassembling of the bridge piece by piece, but for some unclear reason, work can't start until next summer.
The video also talks about the Chambers Railroad covered bridge, the poor condition of which is noted in sad tones by the narrator. Won't the makers of this video be happy to know we have a $1.3 million federal grant to re-build it? Some people think that's a waste of money, but I don't. Work was originally supposed to start this summer with the systematic disassembling of the bridge piece by piece, but for some unclear reason, work can't start until next summer.
Read how our city manager describes the situation in the March 6th Friday Update : http://www.cottagegrove.org/update.html
re: "Some people think that's a waste of money, but I don't" Maybe it's not a waste of money, but maybe the money could be better used elsewhere in cottage grove. bridges are ok, but what could 1.3 million dollars do in our school system?
ReplyDeleteThe money for the bridge came from the US Department of Transportation in the form of a grant so it can't be used for education. Besides, moved the $ available for bridge restoration to the education budget, then at some point all our historic bridges would fall down. Is this what we want? I think there is room for both historic bridge restoration and education funding and it doesn't have to be an either/or situation.
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