Portland’s Broadway Bridge

They’re going to close the Broadway Bridge, you know. Before they close it, I thought I should write about it.

And I took a picture of the Broadway Bridge.

And Broadway is the northern border of the Lloyd District and Broadway crosses the Willamette River on the Broadway Bridge.

Writing about bridges is kind of boring. They are magnificently big, huge, monstrous, long – objects of great fantastic engineering. At the time it was built, the Broadway Bridge was the longest bridge of its type.

But they aren’t interesting, unless they are opening for river traffic when you want to cross. Then it’s a “damned bridge!”

Pedestrians, bicycles, cars, and the trolley cross the Broadway Bridge.

The trolley doesn’t cross the Broadway Bridge yet, but TriMet is building tracks for it and will close the bridge for almost two months (beginning in early July 2010) to finish construction.

At some point, the trolley will cross the bridge.

Once they close the Broadway Bridge, I don’t know which one I will use to replace it – probably, the Burnside Bridge.

Most often, I guess I use the Burnside and Broadway Bridges. I took the picture in this article while I was riding the light rail across the Steel Bridge.

There are lots of bridges in Portland. I know I’ve been on the Broadway Bridge, Steel Bridge, Marquam Bridge, Ross Island Bridge, Burnside Bridge, and the Fremont Bridge. I have to look up the others.

Good thing there are bridges, though.

Otherwise, we’d get wet.

Not really.