Till I Kum Bridge

[EL PRESIDENTE]

GOOD WORK E-GENTS.



http://trimet.org/namethebridge/

THE FINAL TRANSIT BRIDGE NAME:
Tilikum Crossing
Bridge of the People
We asked you to help name the new transit bridge across the Willamette, and you came through in a big way! The Bridge Naming Committee reviewed nearly 9,500 submissions to find those that would connect and inspire—not just now, but 100 years from now—and best reflect the region’s history and culture.

The committee unanimously selected “Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People” for the name for the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Bridge.

Committee Chair and historian Chet Orloff said the Native American name was selected because it holds the “most promise to connect the people of our region today with the long past of people who have been here for thousands of years, and to connect with future generations.”

 

[santeesioux]

Oh those Indians and their names.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

They should all be retroactively be made sexual in nature.

I'd buy a shirt.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Who was the architect? Looks like he was ripping off Calatrava.

 

[Natebishop3]

Great, now it's not just a bar in Raleigh Hills!

 

[maxiep]

What a fucking hippie, bullshit, PC name.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

It was a lot better than the other selections. I like it. We need to get more native with the names like in Vancouver BC with all their shit up thurr.

Something Oregon Trail would have been nice too.

 

[Natebishop3]

What a fucking hippie, bullshit, PC name.

It's a hippie, bullshit, PC bridge.

You realize that it's for pedestrians and max only, right? Our city spent a shit ton of money on a bridge that very few people will actually use.

 

[maxiep]

It's a hippie, bullshit, PC bridge.

You realize that it's for pedestrians and max only, right? Our city spent a shit ton of money on a bridge that very few people will actually use.

Why not just call it "Hipster Bridge"?

 

[Natebishop3]

Why not just call it "Hipster Bridge"?

Because calling oneself a hipster is, in essence, not being a hipster. It's for others to call them a hipster because that's what they are.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

It's a hippie, bullshit, PC bridge.

You realize that it's for pedestrians and max only, right? Our city spent a shit ton of money on a bridge that very few people will actually use.

Lots of people take Max. And bicyclists. I'd like to see more bikers in Portland, kind of model it after Europe. I'm bout dat fixie life.

 

[maxiep]

Lots of people take Max. And bicyclists. I'd like to see more bikers in Portland, kind of model it after Europe. I'm bout dat fixie life.

Says the guy who grew up in the 'burbs and lives in So Cal. Move to Amsterdam and see how you like it.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Says the guy who grew up in the 'burbs and lives in So Cal. Move to Amsterdam and see how you like it.

I'm adaptable. :MARIS61:

I hate driving, but I must. I'm more of an UBER guy.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I'm adaptable. :MARIS61:

I hate driving, but I must. I'm more of an UBER guy.

SoCal once had one of the world's best public transit systems.

Until the oil companies bought it up and destroyed it.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

For me, public transport is fine. My parents have a condo on the Gold Line so when I'm there I can use the rail system to get anywhere. Near me, I can walk 3/4 a mile, and take a bus down to Santa Monica or Venice. I usually do this on the weekends when its kind of sucks with traffic.

Its pretty simple actually where I'm situated.

 

[BlazerWookee]

What a fucking hippie, bullshit, PC name.

You left out "Commie." Just sayin'.

Still repped.

EDIT: You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to maxiep again.

 

[Further]

I want to bike over that bridge and it pisses me off that for the past 3 months the two sides are a foot apart, it seems so close to being complete, yet the bridge isnt going to be finished for another year and a half.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I biked across the bridge before it was there.

 

[santeesioux]

Y'all are racist.

 

[Eastoff]

I want to bike over that bridge and it pisses me off that for the past 3 months the two sides are a foot apart, it seems so close to being complete, yet the bridge isnt going to be finished for another year and a half.

I drive passed and I think the tips are touching now!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Y'all are racist.

come on, if it were called the Long Dong Shlong Bridge, you'd be on that like white on rice.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Y'all are racist.

How is thinking "Bridge of the People" is a terrible name racist?

 

[PDXFonz]

"While the spelling “Tillicum” was initially proposed, the Committee selected “Tilikum” because that is how the first people who lived here spelled the word."

I lold

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

What a fucking hippie, bullshit, PC name.

Let's just call it Bitter Old Man Bridge. Yeesh.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

No but really, it's a bullshit name. Let's slap another giant structure over the landscape and name it in the language of the people we killed so that we had access to the landscape, a language we worked so hard to eradicate less than 100 years ago.

 

[e_blazer]

It's a hippie, bullshit, PC bridge.

You realize that it's for pedestrians and max only, right? Our city spent a shit ton of money on a bridge that very few people will actually use.

Man, you are really going to have a hard time fitting in with the bureaucratic mindset if you do pursue a Master of Urban Planning degree. You need to meditate using the mantra, "All mass transit is good".

 

[maxiep]

I think in honor of the hipsters, it should be called the "Brooklyn Bridge".

 

[santeesioux]

come on, if it were called the Long Dong Shlong Bridge, you'd be on that like white on rice.

 

[santeesioux]

How is thinking "Bridge of the People" is a terrible name racist?

They should just call it the "white people bridge", on account of all of the white people up there!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Just wait, when the mexicans take over, in 50 years we'll be discussing the pros and cons of CRACKA RAVINE.