Editing Morrison Bridge (section)

==Predecessors==
The original Morrison Bridge (or Morrison Street Bridge) was a wooden truss [[swing bridge|swing-span bridge]] that opened to the public on April 9, 1887<ref>{{Cite news |title=To-Day at Noon: This is the Time Set for Opening the Bridge |newspaper=The Morning Oregonian |date=April 9, 1887 |page=5 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=In And About Portland |newspaper=The Sunday Oregonian |date=April 10, 1887 |page=5 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=A great many people passed over the Morrison-street bridge yesterday, but owing to delay in the completion of the work, caused by the weather, there was no formal opening.}}</ref> (with a formal opening three days later),<ref>{{Cite news |title=Local And General |newspaper=The Morning Oregonian |date=April 13, 1887 |page=3 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=The Morrison street bridge was formally opened for traffic at 10 o'clock yesterday forenoon.}}</ref> as the first Willamette River bridge in Portland and the longest bridge west of the [[Mississippi River]]. It was named for the street it carried, which had been named for [[John L. Morrison (pioneer)|John L. Morrison]], a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[immigrant]] who built the first home on Morrison Street.<ref name=wood-wortman/> It was first a [[toll bridge]] (rates: horse-drawn rig - [[US dollar|US$]]0.15, team of horses - $0.20, pedestrian - $0.05) but went toll-free in 1895.<ref name=wood-wortman/> The second Morrison was another swing bridge that was built in 1905. It was not designed for automobiles and the 1958 replacement was long overdue.

The first Morrison Bridge carried [[horsecar]]s starting in March 1888, about a year after the bridge opened. Electric [[Tram|streetcars]], introduced in Portland in November 1889, replaced horsecar service on the bridge in stages starting in 1890.<ref name="labbe">{{Cite book |last=Labbe |first=John T. |date=1980 |title=Fares, Please! Those Portland Trolley Years |pages=34–36, 67–68, 70–71 |location=Caldwell, Idaho (US) |publisher=[[Caxton Press (United States)|The Caxton Printers]] |isbn=0-87004-287-4}}.</ref> Streetcars also crossed the second (1905) Morrison bridge, but not the third (1958), as the last lines of Portland's past streetcar system had been abandoned by the time it opened.<ref name=wood-wortman/><ref name="thompson2010">{{Cite book |last=Thompson |first=Richard |title=Portland's Streetcar Lines |date=2010 |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |pages=99, 105 |isbn=978-0-7385-8126-2}}</ref>