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Steel Bridge
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Steel Bridge
The
Steel Bridge
is a
through truss
, double-deck
vertical-lift bridge
across the
Willamette River
in
Portland, Oregon
,
United States
, opened in 1912. Its lower deck carries railroad and bicycle/pedestrian traffic, while the upper deck carries road traffic (on the
Pacific Highway West No. 1W
, former
Oregon Route 99W
) and
light rail (MAX)
, making the bridge one of the most multimodal in the world. It is the only double-deck bridge with independent lifts in the world and the second oldest
vertical-lift bridge
in North America, after the nearby
Hawthorne Bridge
. The bridge links the
Rose Quarter and Lloyd District
in the east to
Old Town Chinatown
neighborhood in the west.
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