Peaked Traffic and Transportation Triage by Mark Robinowitz a road scholar

Lane County, Oregon: Peak VMT was 2003

Eugene and Springfield: Regional Transportation Plan included over a billion dollars in highway expansions

Oregon Highway Plans: $18 billion Portland highway history, I-5 widening plan Portland Western Bypass: stopped Columbia River Crossing: 16 lane I-5 approved but not funded Salem I-305 - new bridge Bend Porkway - US 97 upgrade new highways: first segments built Medford 62 Bypass Newberg Dundee Bypass Sunrise Highway: Clackamas County Lane County: Eugene, Springfield West Eugene Porkway: 1951 - 2007 Beltline I-5: super-sized interchange Beltline: 14 lane widening plan Troubled Bridges Over Water (I-5) Springfield: 126 freeway upgrade 126 widening: Eugene to Veneta Alaska Pipeline powers Oregon's motors, nearing "low flow" shutdown Oregon Carbon Tax: OR Constitution requires spending on Highway Funds

Eugene's Highway History

 

West Eugene Porkway:
original plan in 1951 - "No Build" selected in 2007

West Eugene Transportation, Land and Neighborhood Design Solutions (WETLANDS)

The WEP would have violated every applicable federal environmental law, especially Section 4(f) of the Transportation Act, which prohibits federally funded transportation through parklands.

www.sustaineugene.org/wep-history.html

www.sustaineugene.org/wep-maps.html

Roosevelt Freeway (1951): original route for WEP

1959 plan: Beltline along the ridge line in South Eugene, connecting to 30th Avenue

1967 highway plan:

• Beltline through south hills, around Spencer's Butte to LCC
• I-105 through south Eugene (it was planned to be much longer than it is now)
• Skinner Butte Freeway: downtown and riverfront expressway to I-5

1978: Whiteaker Bypass, along 6th and 7th

widened Ferry Street bridge: stopped in 1990s

 

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