AUGUST 2007: DISPATCHES
NEWPORT
A construction project to improve a section of Highway 20 is on hold for 12 months
to allow ODOT to explore landslide mitigation options. The
10-mile segment, the last unimproved portion of Highway 20
between Corvallis and Newport, is extremely curvy and 90% is
marked no-passing. The plan calls for replacing the current
road between Eddyville and Pioneer Mountain with a straight
seven-mile segment with multiple passing lanes and wider
shoulders. Freight trucks, commuters and tourists headed to and
from the coast won’t have a quicker drive until 2010 at
the earliest.
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