The Port of Hood River is going out to bid for on a project to do additional pedestrian and bicycle trail connection improvements around the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Hood River.  Port Executive Director Michael McElwee says it will go out to bid in early January.  McElwee notes the bridge was built in the eighties, and this project will provide some more options for bicyclists and pedestrians.  McElwee says the challenge from that will result in a rerouting of the planned pedestrian/bicycle pathway along the waterfront going north along the Spit and connecting up to the new access road to the planned Naito hotel project at the Nichols Basin.