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Cat In Repose
''Cat in Repose'', also known as ''Seated Cat'', is a stone sculpture composed of Indiana Limestone, located on the Portland Transit Mall, Transit Mall of Downtown Portland, downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Designed and created by Kathleen McCullough in 1977, the sculpture is currently installed near the intersection of Southwest Fifth Avenue and Southwest Morrison Street. ''Cat in Repose'' is part of the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council. Description ''Cat in Repose'' is a stone sculpture composed of Indiana Limestone, created by Kathleen McCullough in 1977 in art, 1977. McCullough also sculpted ''Limestone Lion'' (1983), a similar stone work donated by Citigroup, CitiCorp to the Lincoln Park Zoo in memory of A. Rush Watkins, the Chicago businessman who helped establish the Lincoln Park Zoological Society and later served as its president. Both works, depicting reclining Felidae, felines, are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MAX Light Rail
The Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) is a light rail system serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. Owned and operated by TriMet, it consists of five color-designated lines that altogether connect the six sections of Portland; the communities of Beaverton, Clackamas, Gresham, Hillsboro, Milwaukie, and Oak Grove; and Portland International Airport to Portland City Center. Service runs seven days a week with headways of between 30 minutes off-peak and three minutes during rush hours. In 2019, MAX had an average daily ridership of 120,900, or 38.8 million annually. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which impacted public transit use globally, annual ridership plummeted, with only 14.8 million riders recorded in 2021. MAX was among the first second-generation American light rail systems to be built, conceived from freeway revolts that took place in Portland in the early 1970s. Planning for the network's inaugural eastside segment, then re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
