Supermoon at Tilikum Crossing

Last night I went to a Flickr meetup at Tilikum Crossing, under the Marquam Bridge to photograph the Supermoon in Portland. Tilikum Crossing, aka "Bridge o...
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Last night I went to a Flickr meetup at Tilikum Crossing, under the Marquam Bridge to photograph the Supermoon in Portland. Tilikum Crossing, aka "Bridge of the People" is a bridge under construction across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. The crossing is scheduled to open in the fall of 2015 and will likely be the only bridge to survive a major earthquake!

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.
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