Yep. We love our bridge (I live in the St. Johns neighborhood, note, no apostrophe). It and one rail-only lift bridge are the only ones that cross the Willamette River between where the ship had been in dry dock for repairs and the Columbia river. While one non-Greenpeace protester bike-locked himself to a railing on the train-only bridge (which is a Union Pacific rail line that runs through North Portland we call “the cut”) it would have provided no ability to actually delay or deter the ship from transiting under it.
So while the St. Johns bridge’s beauty only add to the media impact of it, it was all about type of bridge and location.