TriMet’s Tilikum Crossing Bridge showcases fireworks for Orange line party
TriMet threw a picnic party for friends of the new MAX Portland-Milwaukie Orange line and used the Tilikum Crossing Bridge as the launching pad for a fireworks finale over the Willamette River Saturday night.
The theme of the party was orange: beer with orange in it, ice cream with orange in and a fireball sunset that turned the sky orange before the fireworks display took command just after dark.
The pyrotechnic display took full advantage of the mass transit and pedestrian bridge's architecture, at time mimicking the pattern of the white support cables or cross-weaving patterns against them.
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TriMet throws party, fireworks show to celebrate Orange Line
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Weeks before its official opening, TriMet unleased a spectacular fireworks display over the Tilikum Crossing bridge Saturday night.
The bridge — the first new bridge over the Willamette in more than 40 years — will be a transit and bike bridge used as the Orange Line when it opens September 12.
Despite the skies over Portland being filled by smoke from Oregon wildfires, the fireworks lit up the sky and brought thousands downtown.