ODOT explores widening I-5 to the west, avoiding expansion toward Harriet Tubman Middle School
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Tubman’s students are predominately Black and Latino, according to district enrollment figures.
Megan Channell, project manager leading the Rose Quarter freeway project, briefed two state committees on that option this week. The state estimates it will have to decide if it’s a feasible option by mid-July.
Design work on the nearly $800 million project, which would add shoulders and merging lanes on I-5 between the interchanges with I-84 and I-405, is 20% complete.
ODOT explores widening I-5 to the west, avoiding expansion toward school By Andrew Theen, oregonlive.com
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Oregon transportation officials are exploring whether they could widen Interstate 5 through the Rose Quarter by expanding the freeway westward, avoiding a controversial proposal to further encroach on Harriet Tubman Middle School, the majority-minority school that sits perched just east of the interstate.
Megan Channell, project manager leading the Rose Quarter freeway project, briefed two state committees on that option this week. The state estimates it will have to decide if it’s a feasible option by mid-July.
Design work on the nearly $800 million project, which would add shoulders and merging lanes on I-5 between the interchanges with I-84 and I-405, is 20% complete.