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âWe have not given up!â said Lyn Larson.
Larson is secretary of Preservation WORKS, the Corvallis-area nonprofit that has been working to try to preserve the Van Buren Bridge.
The Oregon Department of Transportation is working on a $72 million project to replace the one-lane bridge with a two-lane, seismically safe span with bicycle and pedestrian amenities.
The city of Corvallis and Preservation WORKS teamed up last summer on an application to take ownership of the bridge, but ODOT rejected the application, partly because it required the state agency to pay to move the bridge. Its application dead in the water, the city pulled out in October.