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The Interstate Bridge's name is a simple descriptive one based on its location, as a bridge connecting two states. [2] In 1917, the new bridge gave its name to a Portland arterial street. Shortly before the bridge opened, a pair of streets through North Portland that were planned to be treated as the main route to and from the bridge, Maryland ...
The Marquam Bridge / ˈ m ɑːr k əm / is a double-deck, steel-truss cantilever bridge [1] that carries Interstate 5 traffic across the Willamette River from south of downtown Portland, Oregon, on the west side to the industrial area of inner Southeast on the east. It is the busiest bridge in Oregon, carrying 140,500 vehicles a day as of 2016. [2]
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber introduced a bill for the 2013 legislature (H.B. 2260) which gives the state authority to raise money for the project via tolling; in the bill the project is referred to as "The Interstate 5 Bridge Replacement Program" rather than the CRC, a rebranding noted by local and national journalists. [14] [15] [16]
Google's (GOOG) navigation tool has returned to the iPhone, months after Apple's (AAPL) home-grown mapping service flopped, prompting user complaints, the firing of an executive and a public ...
The Sherars Bridge Highway can be traced to a bridge over the Deschutes River, built in 1860 and rebuilt in 1862. Joseph Sherar and his wife, Jane, bought the log bridge in 1871, replaced it with a wooden toll bridge , and improved 60 miles (97 km) of an existing wagon road that crossed the bridge. [ 1 ]
Interstate 405 (I-405), also known as the Stadium Freeway No. 61, [3] is a short north–south Interstate Highway in Portland, Oregon. It forms a loop that travels around the west side of Downtown Portland , between two junctions with I-5 on the Willamette River near the Marquam Bridge to the south and Fremont Bridge to the north.
The project to replace the Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River on Interstate 5 connecting Washington and Oregon is estimated to cost $6 billion.
It is also known as the Oregon City Freeway Bridge and the I-205 Bridge. The bridge was dedicated and opened on May 28, 1970, and cost $17.1 million to construct. [ 2 ] It is named for George Abernethy , who was the governor of the Provisional Government of the Oregon Country from 1845 to 1849 and later an Oregon City businessman. [ 1 ]