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Welcome to Beaver State Roads!
Simply put, Beaver State Roads aims to be your one-stop shop for information on Oregon state routes, highways, and other important roads. It was borne out of an earlier project, ORoads, which was originally hosted on Angelfire starting around 2002. Unfortunately, ORoads became all but abandonned in the late 2000s-early 2010s due to life and other things, and during that time both the site design and the information within grew stale. Beaver State Roads strives to correct the outdated information plus add in the wealth of additional knowledge obtained over the past 20 years, presenting route and highway history and data as accurate as possible.
At present, this is a solo effort. However, the goal is to recruit additional Oregon roadgeeks as contributors in the near future. This will happen once some additional tweaking is done on the site and a bunch of content is added.
📰 Recent Oregon Highway News
- Why Alternative Interstate 5 Bridge Replacement Ideas Won’t Work (9/18/2022 — The Columbian — Vancouver, WA)
Nearly everyone agrees the Interstate 5 Bridge is not serving the region well. It would be catastrophically damaged in a big earthquake, it lacks breakdown and auxiliary lanes, it is not safe for pedestrians or cyclists and freeway congestion is terrible — heaven forbid you’re traveling north after 3 p.m. What people can’t agree on is what should replace it. - 🚧 Highway 58 Paving Project Moved to Daytime Hours (9/17/2022 — KEZI-TV ABC 9 — Eugene)
Paving work along Highway 58 is switching to daytime hours starting September 19th. This is along Oregon Highway 58 from the tunnel to milepost 70. Officials with the Oregon Department of Transportation said in order to get all paving done with the weather is good, they are switching work to daytime hours. - 🧾 🔊 How Freeway Builders Collided With Oregon’s Growth Management System (8/5/2022 — Oregon Public Broadcasting — Portland)
[Meeky] Blizzard had become the leading face of political opposition to a proposed freeway that would have run along the fringes of Washington County’s suburban fringe. Known as the Westside Bypass, the 20-mile freeway was ardently sought by the county’s business and political leaders. But their freeway-building vision clashed with Oregon’s pioneering new growth management system — those rules about where and how land could be developed.
Key: 🚧 = Road construction/closure information | 🧾 = Historical information | 🔊 = Audio version/podcast episode available | 💲 = Paywall | 💰 = Obnoxious paywall | 😡 = Other webpage annoyances
See Also
- Beaver State Blog, the blog companion to this wiki. Provides news and articles about past, present and future Oregon roads.
