Newberg Dundee Bypass

first segment under construction through farmland

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

The Newberg Dundee Bypass is a new two-thirds billion dollar bypass through urban and rural areas, partly a faster route from Portland to the coast. Construction started in 2013.

www.oregonjta.org/region2/?p=highway99w&expandable=2

Newberg Dundee Bypass Draft Environmental Impact Statement comments
from Mark Robinowitz, PeakTraffic.org (2 megabyte PDF file)

 

ODOT fact sheet, Autumn 2012 - ODOT will only build part of this because there is not enough money.

The full bypass will be an 11-mile, four-lane highway around the cities of Newberg and Dundee. While the entire bypass has been approved, funding is only available for the first part of the project.

By using a phased approach, a key segment will be complete by 2016. Construction of this segment, known as Phase 1, is projected to cost $262 million, with funds coming from the Oregon Legislature's Jobs and Transportation Act, the federal government and contributions by Yamhill County, the cities of Newberg, Dundee and McMinnville, and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde.