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28-805: Currently, OR 99E and OR 99W do not reconvene at a northern junction in Oregon; OR 99W has been truncated from its original route, and ends in North Portland at an interchange with OR 99E and Interstate 5; nor is OR 99 (without a suffix) signed anywhere in Portland. OR 99E has its southern terminus in Junction City. Almost immediately after leaving the city limits the route crosses the Willamette River , and serves Willamette Valley towns such as Harrisburg and Tangent. North of Tangent,

56-620: A former extension of OR 99W) to the Pacific Highway No. 1 (I-5) in northern Portland, as well as south on OR 99 to the Pacific Highway (I-5) in Eugene . Until around 1972, OR 99W was U.S. Route 99W , rejoining OR 99E (formerly US 99E ) in northern Portland. US 99 then continued north along present I-5 into Washington ; the next segment still numbered 99 is WA 99 south of Seattle . The Pacific Highway West begins at

84-535: A population of 783,389 and, by 1932, the work that had been started on the Oregon Coast Highway (also known as U.S. Route 101 ) in 1914 was completed, except for five bridges, which meant greater responsibility for the division. This work was complete when the construction of the bridges over the Yaquina , Alsea , Siuslaw , and Umpqua rivers and Coos Bay were completed, closing the last gaps in

112-655: A section of OR 22 and the Salem Parkway ; a previous alignment of OR 99E along Commercial Street, Fairgrounds Road, and Portland Road is often erroneously referred to as "99E" even though it is no longer part of the Oregon Route system ). North of Salem, OR 99E serves the northern Willamette Valley, passing through cities such as Woodburn , Hubbard , and Canby , before entering the Portland metro area in Oregon City . The stretch between Canby and Oregon City

140-525: A western loop of the Pacific Highway (Highway 1/U.S. Route 99). (The former Capitol Highway south of Dayton was removed from the system, but was later taken over as the Salem-Dayton Highway .) The section north of Portland was initially named Multnomah Boulevard until Interstate Avenue was adopted in 1916; the street was paved in the late 1920s amid several minor realignments to provide for a 100-foot (30 m) wide highway. In 1930, Highway 3

168-733: Is a state-numbered route in Oregon , United States , that runs from OR 99 and OR 99E in Junction City north to I-5 in southwestern Portland . Some signage continues it north to US 26 near downtown, but most signage agrees with the Oregon Department of Transportation 's (ODOT) description, ending it at I-5. OR 99W is known by ODOT as the Pacific Highway West No. 1W (see Oregon highways and routes ); that highway continues north through downtown (along

196-700: Is not a state highway. South of the Ross Island Bridge approach, Oregon Highway 99W and OR 10 split from Barbur Boulevard onto Naito Parkway , an arterial that once connected directly to Harbor Drive . OR 10 ends at the west end of the Ross Island Bridge, which carries US 26 , the Mt. Hood Highway No. 26. Until around 2005, US 26 came off the bridge onto the Pacific Highway West north into downtown Portland, but it now heads west on

224-645: Is notorious for frequent and serious accidents. Starting in Oregon City, and continuing through the suburban communities of Gladstone , Oak Grove and Milwaukie , OR 99E is known as McLoughlin Boulevard (after fur trader John McLoughlin ). The road crosses the John McLoughlin Bridge just south of Gladstone. North of Milwaukie (and an interchange with OR 224 ), OR 99E is a high-capacity urban expressway . In Portland, OR 99E continues as

252-618: The Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway ) before ending at Highway 1W south of downtown. Through downtown Portland, the original alignment took US 99W across the Broadway Bridge , reaching it via 4th Avenue, Burnside Street, and Broadway northbound, and Broadway, Pine Street, and 6th Avenue southbound. In 1950 it was realigned along Harbor Drive , the Steel Bridge and a realigned Interstate Avenue. Harbor Drive

280-486: The Willamette River , OR 99W stays on its west side through the Willamette Valley , passing through towns such as Monroe , Corvallis , Monmouth , Rickreall , Amity , McMinnville and Lafayette . Oregon Route 18 provides a bypass for OR 99W around downtown McMinnville and Lafayette. At McMinnville, OR 99W turns northeast. It passes through the winemaking towns of Dundee and Newberg before entering

308-517: The interchange with I-5 (Pacific Highway) and OR 126 Business ( McKenzie Highway No. 15) in eastern Eugene . It heads west through downtown Eugene along OR 99 and OR 126 Business, and then northwest and north to Junction City on OR 99. At Junction City, OR 99 ends and OR 99W begins along the Pacific Highway West, while OR 99E heads northeast on the Albany-Junction City Highway No. 58. While OR 99E quickly crosses

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336-476: The state highways and other transportation in the U.S. state of Oregon , in conjunction with the Oregon Department of Transportation. The first State Highway Commission was created on August 12, 1913, and was composed of Governor Oswald West , Secretary of State Ben W. Olcott and Treasurer Thomas B. Kay . On January 12, 1915, James Withycombe became Governor and replaced Oswald West on

364-542: The Columbia River crossing. (The interchange also involves Interstate Avenue, which was the prior route of OR 99W before the latter route was truncated). OR 99E was originally part of U.S. Route 99E (US 99E), which was created alongside US 99W in 1930 as part of a split of US 99 between Junction City and Portland. The parallel highways ran through the Willamette Valley and

392-688: The McLoughlin Boulevard expressway until passing beneath the Ross Island Bridge ( US 26 ), where it runs on the couplet of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (formerly Union Avenue) and Grand Avenue. It is the main north–south arterial through the central east side of the city. North of NE Broadway, OR 99E continues as MLK Jr. Boulevard and passes through several Northeast Portland Neighborhoods until its terminus at an interchange with I-5 and OR 120 in Delta Park, just south of

420-659: The Oregon State Highway Commission, was created by an act of the Oregon Legislative Assembly in 1913. It works closely with the five-member Oregon Transportation Commission (the modern name of the Highway Commission) in managing the state's transportation systems. The Oregon Transportation Commission, formerly the Oregon State Highway Commission, is a five-member governor-appointed government agency that manages

448-489: The Pacific Highway (Highway 1) was moved to its planned alignment, resulting in an extension of Highway 1W south to Eugene . US 99W however continued to terminate at Junction City; the new I-5 was designated US 99 when it opened in 1961. (US 99W from south of downtown Portland north to its end was temporarily part of US 99 from 1961 to 1963, when I-5 opened north of downtown.) US 99 became OR 99 in December 1971, resulting in

476-495: The Portland suburb of Sherwood . OR 18 provides a partial bypass for OR 99W around downtown Dundee and Newberg. The bypass currently ends at OR 219, but is proposed to extend northeast to OR 99W northeast of Newberg. OR 99W then skirts the city of Tualatin and passes through Tigard before entering Portland and immediately ending at I-5. The Pacific Highway West, however, continues northeast and north, paralleling I-5 on Barbur Boulevard. OR 10 joins at Capitol Highway, which

504-700: The commission. The 1917 Oregon Legislative Assembly redesigned the State Highway Commission, with citizens appointed to replace the elected officials. The new commissioners held their first meeting on March 6, and the commission was then known as the Oregon Highway Division. As Oregon's transportation needs started to grow, the division expanded and, in 1919, it employed their first State Bridge Engineer, Conde McCullough . By 1920, Oregon had 620 miles (998 km) of paved roads and 297.2 miles (478.3 km) of plank roads for

532-419: The freeways. The installations have received support from neighbors while criticized by homeless advocacy groups. On November 12, 1970, the department was tasked with disposing of a dead sperm whale that washed ashore on the beach near Florence . The department exploded the dead whale using half a ton of dynamite to blast it off the beach. Pieces of dead whale went everywhere including the beach, bystanders,

560-576: The highway. By 1940, the highway division was managing more than 7,000 miles (11,300 km) of state, market and country roads in Oregon, with nearly 5,000 miles (8,000 km) being hard-surfaced. In 2018, the city government of Portland, Oregon and ODOT entered into an intergovernmental agreement in which the Portland city government takes over the cleanups of transient camps on ODOT right-of-way in select locations in Portland in exchange for payments from ODOT. In 2019, ODOT installed boulders at five locations in Portland to deter transient camps around

588-583: The locally maintained Arthur Street to reach I-405 . At the overpass over I-405 is the former split with Harbor Drive, which was replaced by Tom McCall Waterfront Park in 1974. The road now runs into Naito Parkway (formerly Front Avenue), and is state-maintained until Market Street, the eastbound half of the one-way pair of the Sunset Highway (US 26 left the Pacific Highway West here prior to ca. 2005). The Pacific Highway West continues north through downtown, locally maintained along Naito Parkway, to

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616-575: The renumbering of US 99W to OR 99W. It was truncated in 1979 to I-5 just north of the Tigard/Portland line. It was again re-extended to south of downtown in 1996, with various signs identifying it as 99W placed sporadically between downtown and Tigard. The original alignment in southern Portland, bypassed in the 1930s by Barbur Boulevard, is still called Capitol Highway. It begins at the present north end of OR 99W and runs first east, then west, of Highway 1W, eventually merging with OR 10 (formerly

644-407: The route enters the city of Albany and serves as a main thoroughfare through town (for about a mile, OR 99E shares an alignment with US 20 ). At the northern end of Albany, OR 99E joins I-5 . OR 99E remains co-signed with I-5 until Salem where it again splits off from the interstate, serving many towns in northern Marion County . (A business route through Salem, OR 99E Business , consists of

672-536: The state-maintained Steel Bridge . There is a direct ramp for northbound traffic onto the bridge, but the former southbound ramp is now used by the MAX Light Rail system, and so southbound traffic must head west to 3rd Avenue, three blocks west of Naito Parkway. At the northeast end of the Steel Bridge, the Pacific Highway West again becomes locally maintained, and heads north on Interstate Avenue all

700-481: The suffixed designations were proposed by cities on the west side. In the 1950s and 1960s, I-5 (also signed as US 99 Bypass) was built parallel to US 99E and absorbed the Albany–Salem section of the highway to form a concurrency. US 99, US 99E, and US 99W were decommissioned in December 1971 and replaced by their state counterparts the following year. Oregon Route 99W Oregon Route 99W

728-762: The way to I-5 (the Pacific Highway ) near the Interstate Bridge . It is again state-maintained north of Argyle Street. The first highway in the corridor was the Capitol Highway (Highway 3), from Portland to Salem via Dayton (roughly present OR 99W and OR 221 ). In 1927 it was merged with the West Side Highway , which ran from Dayton to Junction City, to form the West Side Pacific Highway, still numbered 3, and

756-471: Was assigned the U.S. Route 99W number and Highway 1 (old US 99) between the ends of Highway 3 became US 99E. Highway 1 was similarly split in 1938, forming the Pacific Highway West - Highway 1W - and the Pacific Highway East , Highway 1E. Highway 1W was formed from Highway 3, and extended north on Interstate Avenue to just south of the Interstate Bridge . In 1957, with the assignment of I-5,

784-575: Was removed in 1974, resulting in OR 99W moving west one block to Front Street (now Naito Parkway) downtown. Oregon Department of Transportation The Oregon Department of Transportation ( ODOT ) is a department of the state government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for systems of transportation . It was first established in 1969. It had been preceded by the Oregon State Highway Department which, along with

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