Bridges- Oregon
Willamette River, Portland

This is where most of the Portland bridges are concentrated.

Ross Island

Marquam Bridge

Type	Steel Through Truss	Year Opened	1966
# of Decks	2	# of lanes/tracks	8 lanes
Total Length		Main Span Length	440 ft
Highway/RR	I-5	Misc
Toll	None	Misc
Comments	Probably the ugliest bridge across the Willamette.

View from downtown Portland. (8/9/02)

Hawthorne Bridge

View from waterfront park looking south (8/9/02)

Bridge is opening for river traffic (8/9/02)

Bridge is now closing, looking north (8/9/02)

Morrison Bridge

Type	Double leaf trunnion Bascule	Year Opened	1958
# of Decks	1	# of lanes/tracks	6 lanes
Total Length		Main Span Length	284 ft
Highway/RR		Misc
Toll	None	Misc
Comments	This is the main bridge into downtown from the I-84 Freeway exit.

View looking north from waterfront park (8/9/02)

Burnside Bridge

View looking north from waterfront park (8/9/02)

View looking south north from East Promenade (8/11/02)

Steel Bridge

Type	Telescoping double deck lift	Year Opened	1912
# of Decks	2	# of lanes/tracks	4 lanes (2 LRT tracks) + 2 RR tracks
Total Length		Main Span Length	211 ft
Highway/RR		Misc
Toll	None	Misc
Comments	The 2nd oldest lift bridge in North America, the only surviving telescoping vertical bridge in the world. The lower deck can lift separately from the upper deck.

View looking north from waterfront park (8/9/02)

View looking north from waterfront park (8/9/02)

View looking north from East Promenade (8/9/02)

View looking north from waterfront park (8/11/02)

Broadway Bridge

Type	Double leaf Rall bascule drawbridge	Year Opened	1913
# of Decks	1	# of lanes/tracks	4
Total Length		Main Span Length	297 ft
Highway/RR	Broadway	Misc
Toll	None	Misc
Comments

View looking north from the Steel Bridge (8/9/02)