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This is a view northward from the part of the Ross Island Bridge that goes over SE McLoughlin Blvd.This viaduct has a bit of history.
The viaduct as it stands is only around 15 years old. It replaces one which existed there for decades and was something of a roller-coaster ride, because the low spot it goes over, where SE Division Place and the SPRR mainline, is one of the legendary places where Portland leveled the ground with fill and, as such, was imperceptibly moving in the general direction of the Willamette River. By the time the 2000s came along this was enough to make of it a wiggly, serpentine trip.
The new viaduct is a has lovely art deco touches. Those pyramidal pylons are the past's idea of the future, angular yet graceful and poetic on a subliminal level. I dig its personality.
The lanes on the north bound, the right, side devolve into Grand Avenue, which can be seen dwindling into the increasingly-inaccurately named Central Eastside Industrial District. The ones on the left receive outbound traffic going south from SE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.
The highway itself dates back about a century.
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