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Aesthetic lighting gives the new Tilikum Crossing ‘Bridge of the People’ a dramatic look. O ’Neill Electric Inc., a minority-owned company, installed the lighting and
electrical components as part of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project's Public Art Program. The new span over the Willamette River south of the Marquam
Bridge will be reserved for light-rail and streetcar trains, buses, bicycles and pedestrians, but no private cars, when it opens in September.
Growth with a Justice Lens
c o n t i n u e d f r o m fron t
TriMet created the innovative
award-winning program back in 2000
when it was getting ready to build
the Interstate MAX Yellow Line
project in north Portland. The com
m unity had concerns that past
projects didn’t provide enough lo
cal opportunities. TriMet delivered
$36 million in contracts for that
project; $62 million for the MAX
Green Line, and now topping $170
million for the Portland-Milwaukie
project.
“Inclusive contracting is part of
how we do business, and our prime
contractors embrace that same vi
sion to make sure DBE firms have a
shot at these contracts,” said TriMet
E xecutive D irector o f C apital
Projects Dan Blocher.
Dr. T. Allen Bethel, an African
American pastor from northeast
Portland and amember of the TriMet
board of directors, announced that
Daryle Low of Hoffman Construc
tion was selected for the agency’s
2014 DBE Champion of the Year
Award.
Bethel noted that Low, who is
a project m anager for Hoffman
“has helped strengthen the ca
pacity of small businesses and
achieved more than 30 percent
DBE participation while building
G eneral C ontractor capacity for a
DBE firm.”
Prim e C ontractor Stacy and
Witbeck was selected for TriM et’s
DBE Champion of the Y ear Organi
zation Award. Bethel said the
company ’ s commitment to inclusive
contracting is “part of its DNA.
They ’ ve consistently identified new
opportunities for small firms and
have mentored and helped build
capacities of these firms.” Stacy and
Witbeck has achieved more than 22
percent DBE participation on the
light rail project.
Bethel himself was the first re
cipient of TriM et’s DBE Champion
of the Year Award due to his unwa
vering commitment to DBE advance
ment as a community activist and
TriMet board member.
O fficials said the P ortland-
Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project
is on time and on budget. The 7.3-
mile segment with 10 transit sta
tions is the region’s sixth MAX
construction project and will im
prove transit in a corridor that ex
tends from the terminus of the MAX
Green and Yellow lines at Portland
State University in downtown Port
land to South Waterfront, south
east Portland, Milwaukie and north
Clackamas County.
Tilikum Crossing, the first of its
kind multi-modal bridge in the U.S.,
will carry light rail and streetcar
trains, buses, bicyclists and pedes
trians, but no private vehicles.
Participants at the DBE ceremony
were able to get a glimpse of the new
aesthetic lighting for the bridge from
windows outside OMSI as some of
the first tests o f the lights were
made.
Created by artists Douglas Hollis
and the late Anna Valentina Murch,
the lighting system is designed to
change colors according to data
streamed from a U.S. Geological
Service river m onitor near the
Morrison Bridge. The lighting ef
fects will change based on the river’s
speed, height and water tempera
ture.
The lights are scheduled to be
permanently activated in Septem
ber for the bridge’s grand opening.
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: C an a n y th in g be done
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