Notifiblog: Bridges

Bridges are a big part of life when you have a river running through your hometown.  In Portland, Oregon, we have the following bridges:

Willamette River

Bridges over the Willamette River, listed north to south:

• St. Johns Bridge (1931) - U.S. Route 30/N Philadelphia Avenue
• Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 5.1 (1908)
• Fremont Bridge (1973) - Interstate 405
• Broadway Bridge (1913) - Broadway
• Steel Bridge (1912) - Pacific Highway West/former Oregon Route 99W
• Burnside Bridge (1926) - Burnside Street
• Morrison Bridge (1958) - Morrison Street
• Hawthorne Bridge (1910) - Hawthorne Boulevard
• Marquam Bridge (1966) - Interstate 5
• Ross Island Bridge (1922) - U.S. Route 26/Powell Boulevard
• Sellwood Bridge (1925) - SE Tacoma Street

Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Bridge is the working name for a planned new bridge across the Willamette.^[39]

Columbia River

Bridges over the Columbia River, listed west to east:

• Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 9.6 (1908)
• Interstate Bridge (1917/1958) - Interstate 5
• Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge (1982) - Interstate 205

The fear of bridges is called Gephyrophobia.

 

The oldest surviving bridge in the US is the Frankford Avenue Bridge (1697), in the Holmesburg section of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

Oregon also shares some of the US's collection of covered bridges.  My Mum and one of her sisters went on a road trip around various parts of Oregon just so my "Adventure" Auntie could photograph them.