Community photos

From ODOT-

On Feb. 3 we asked you to send us your photos of the bridge and surrounding environs so we could see the project from your vantage point.



Below are some of the photos we have received to date.



We’d like to thank Douglas Beauchamp, arts consultant for the Willamette River Bridge project, who sent us these photos from early 2009, before construction work began on the new bridges.



The first photo shows one of 11 Talking Stones featuring Kalapuya words translated into English. These stones are found throughout the Whilamut Natural Area of Alton Baker Park. I can’t wait to see the same vantage point with the new bridges in the background.

KANAA- Talking Stone: Going Across Place, February 2009. Photo: Douglas Beauchamp

In the photo below, runners enjoy the North Bank Path with the original and temporary I-5 bridges overhead. Both of those bridges have since been removed.

Making tracks- North Bank Path, February 2009. Photo: Douglas Beauchamp

We’d also like to thank Tom Boyatt, transportation manager for the city of Springfield, for sending the photo below. It shows attendees of the August 18 southbound bridge opening ceremony in the shadow of the new bridge.

Southbound bridge opening event, August 2011. Photo: Tom Boyatt

We love seeing photos like these, so please send us your favorites as the project continues. Please send photos to Jyll.E.Smith@odot.state.or.us, in a JPG format and no larger than 1MB.