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Knickerbocker Bicycle Bridge (officially the Willie Knickerbocker Bridge) is a bridge across the
Willamette River The Willamette River ( ) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Flowing northward b ...
in
Eugene, Oregon Eugene ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast. As of the 2020 United States Census, Eu ...
, United States. The bridge was dedicated in 1980. The bridge was originally constructed to carry a
Eugene Water & Electric Board The Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) is Oregon's largest customer-owned utility. Founded in 1911, it provides electricity and water to more than 86,000 customers in or around Eugene, Oregon. Chartered by the City of Eugene, a five-member ...
water main for $330,000. The city and county added the bridge deck, rails, and approaches for $110,000. The bridge is named for Willie Knickerbocker (1868–1960), "The Father of Bicycling in Eugene".


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List of crossings of the Willamette River This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon from the Columbia River upstream to the confluence of the Middle Fork Willamette River and Coast Fork Willamette River. This confluence, at , is co ...
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Whilamut Passage Bridge The Whilamut Passage Bridge is a pair of bridges across the Willamette River in Eugene, Oregon, U.S. The west span was completed in 2011. The east span was completed and opened in August 2013. They carry Interstate 5 traffic and replaced an ea ...
—nearby bridge running parallel to the Knickerbocker Bicycle Bridge over the
Millrace A mill race, millrace or millrun, mill lade (Scotland) or mill leat (Southwest England) is the current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel (sluice) conducting water to or from a water wheel. Compared with the broad waters of a mil ...
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