Going Down The Inside Lane At The Hawthorne Bridge

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It's that sort of adventure, you know the kind, where you feel all risky but all you have to do is operate on an ordinary level of care and you're gonna be okay. 

The Hawthorne Bridge, the southernmost of the major bridges connecting Portland City Center West to Portland City Center East, is a four-lane truss bridge, with two lanes outside the truss and two lanes inside the truss. It's a steel deck with no shoulders - you break down, there's literally no place to pull over. But the inner lanes have something that the outer lanes do not, namely, a lane of traffic coming your way with nothing between you and that lane.

So it seems rather dangerous. 

 

But you know it's going to be okay, because you're a conscientious driver. It's that other schmo you gotta worry about.

You know ... the one coming at you.