The Mount Hood Freeway is a partially constructed but never to be completed freeway alignment of U.S. Route 26 and Interstate 80N (now Interstate 84), which would have run through southeast Portland, Oregon. Related projects would have continued the route through the neighboring suburb of Gresham, out to the city of Sandy.

2024年7月25日 · The Mount Hood Freeway, if constructed, would have passed through southeast Portland, from the Marquam Bridge at the Willamette River to about S.E. 122nd Avenue. Changes in political leadership coupled with new federal environmental legislation and grass-roots opposition prevented the freeway's approval and construction.

2021年12月10日 · On February 24, 1974, U.S. District Judge James M. Burns ruled that the state highway division failed to follow its own rules when deciding where to locate the Mount Hood Freeway. The ruling was the death knell for the project and left little room for state officials and freeway boosters trying to save the freeway.

2024年11月13日 · If modern-day Portland has an origin story, it might just be the strangling of the Mount Hood Freeway, which officially died at the hands of U.S. District Judge James Burns in 1974.

2005年3月9日 · If there was one event that defined Portland in the past 25 years, it was killing the Mount Hood Freeway-a 6-mile, eight-lane asphalt behemoth that would have vaulted across the river from Johns...

On July 25, 1974, the Portland City Council withdrew its support for the planned Mount Hood Freeway through Southeast Portland. The moment marked what was probably the final nail in the controversial freeway's coffin.

2014年11月5日 · The biggest of all was called the Mount Hood Freeway, an eight-lane ribbon that would have peeled off the Marquam Bridge, and run east in a 40-foot-deep trench where Southeast Clinton Street is...

2024年8月7日 · In 1955, The Oregon State Highway Department helped usher in the freeway building era in Portland by publishing its plan for 14 modern freeways designed to crisscross the city. A major component of that report was the Mount Hood Freeway, a route designed to pass through southeast Portland, connecting the city to its expanding eastern suburbs.

2006年6月7日 · A New York filmmaker has put together a great video clip on the paradigm shift moment here in Portland when we rejected the Mt. Hood Freeway. Hat tip to the Shift list for the pointer. Defeat of the Mt. Hood Freeway

Learn how changing times and laws empowered freeway opponents and political leaders alike, leading to new transportation options including light rail, the revitalization of downtown, and the preservation of several southeast Portland neighborhoods that stood in …