Any longtime pedestrian-user of the Morrison can tell you that the "modern" standards of structural engineering to which it was built permit much larger deflections than do the "ancient" standards of the Broadway, Steel, Burnside, Hawthorne.

We get bounced around a lot when a heavy vehicle, exiting I5 at speed, hits the movable section in the middle. Remember! a cell-phoning lady drove over the barrier into the river there several years ago. My friend Gabe was killed there riding his motorbike between late night jobs.

I intend to check it out once. Then I'll avoid it like the plague! I do not intend to be the third recipient of THE CURSE OF THE MORRISON!