Via BikePortland.org, comes news that Sam Adams is going to scrap the Sauvie Island Bridge reuse project, after learning that statewide transportation funding is in the gutter thanks to lower gas tax revenues (though the bridge project doesn’t rely on gas tax revenues…).

Adams is having a press conference this morning at 9:30 to explain. I’ll update afterwards. Perhaps he’ll tell us why he’s got a tendency to abandon the projects he’s most passionate about, as soon as he hits a big hurdle (Mayor Tom Potter and oil company lobbyists were the street fee hurdle; Potter has been the hurdle on the bridge, but Adams seems to be taking the transportation funding woes as a nice way to abandon what’s become a sticky election year project).

Prediction: Adams will tout his ‘leadership’ when announcing his decision to end the project.