The Port of Hood River has scheduled two weekly full-height lifts of the Hood River-White Salmon Bridge to occur between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. every Friday morning for the purpose of tensioning and testing the newly installed wire ropes on the bridge’s lift span.  Port crews will perform two back-to-back full height lifts of the span, each lasting approximately 25 minutes, during that hour every Friday through May of 2024.  While some traffic will be able to clear between each of the two lifts, motorists should expect significant delays in crossing during the 4 a.m. hour every Friday.  The Port’s engineering firm says the objective of the lifts is to allow the ropes to work over the sheaves during operation so that the individual components of the ropes can properly seat against each other, and when rope tensioning is performed in six months they can reasonably expect the ropes will essentially be at their final state and the adjustments that are made at that time should hold well into the future.