Miguel Rosales, the Boston architect who has designed the first new downtown Portland Willamette River bridge in more than 30 years, will explain his plan at a lecture Tuesday night at City Hall.

Short-span bridges provide vital links in the nation’s infrastructure network. Yet, on average, there are 188 million trips taken across structurally deficient bridges each day. Congress is currently ...

Its real name is the “Bronx-Whitestone Bridge,” but most people simply refer to the span by the Queens neighborhood it touches. (i.e. “Traffic is steady on the Whitestone.”) Inaugurated by Mayor ...