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Rose Quarter Transportation Plan Revised by State
Oregon Department of Transportation (ODT) officials went back to the drawing board to revise plans for the section of Interstate 5 that travels through the Rose Quarter in Portland. The proposed changes include eliminating part of the widening plan that would have resulted in an overhang above the Eastbank Esplanade and closed the popular bike and pedestrian path for several years.
That change will reduce the width of freeway shoulders in that portion of the interstate. The total cost revisions of the estimated $715- to $795-million freeway project will be determined in 2021, when the project reaches a roughly 30% design status, it is currently 15% designed.
The Federal Highway Administration supports the project and ODT’s 2019 environmental analysis indicating the project would marginally effect travel times and won’t dramatically affect Portland Metro air quality. But the project will produce other benefits such as new development on top of freeway caps, and adding bike, pedestrian and vehicle bridges over the freeway.
For comments, questions or concerns, please contact Dennis Kaiser
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