Congestion task force to recommend 18 ideas to ease downtown traffic

The Marion Street Bridge in early September. A task force has since February worked on ideas to cut traffic congestion around the bridges and will soon present ideas to Salem City Council. (Moriah Ratner/Special to Salem Reporter)

Travel times over Salem’s downtown bridges could be cut down with a series of modest changes recommended recently by the city’s Congestion Relief Task Force.

That is good news for those making the stop-and-go trips over the bridges.…