Tilikum Crossing Bridge
by Don Schwartz
Title
Tilikum Crossing Bridge
Artist
Don Schwartz
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
The Tilikum Crossing Bridge in Portland, Oregon is lit up during a celebration of its opening.
From Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia:
Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People is a bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States. TriMet, the Portland metropolitan area's regional transit authority, is building the bridge, which will carry TriMet's MAX Orange Line light rail trains, the Portland Streetcar, buses, bicycles, pedestrians, and emergency vehicles. Private cars and trucks will not be permitted on the bridge. The crossing is scheduled to open for general use on September 12, 2015, and will be the first new bridge built across the river in the Portland metropolitan area since 1973.The first public access to the bridge was given on August 9, 2015, in the morning for the 20th annual Providence Bridge Pedal and in the afternoon with a three-hour period in which the bridge was open to everyone. It will then be closed until September 12, 2015, the opening date of the MAX Orange Line.
TriMet selected the name of the bridge in April 2014 from a list of four finalists chosen by the public. Tilikum is a Chinook Jargon word meaning people, tribe, or family, and the name is intended to honor the Multnomah, Cascade, Clackamas, and other Chinookan peoples who lived in the area as long as 14,000 years ago. The Tilikum name also references the pervasive use of Chinook Jargon in Portland"s first half century in the frequent trade interactions between pioneers and Native Americans. Before being named, the still-uncompleted bridge had usually been referred to as the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Bridge, or as Caruthers Crossing due to its proximity to Caruthers Street.
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