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Aerial view of Interstate 5 in downtown Medford, where it travels on an elevated viaduct. I-5 enters Oregon at the California state line in southern Jackson County.The highway travels northeast along a ridge in the Siskiyou Mountains, with a maximum grade of 6 percent, to Siskiyou Summit; [12] at 4,310 feet (1,310 m), it is the highest point on all of I-5 and one of the highest points on the ...
In the 1950s and 1960s, [citation needed] 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. [3] US 99, US 99E, and US 99W were decommissioned in December 1971 and replaced by their state counterparts the following year.
The Oregon state government initially proposed numbering the auxiliary Interstates using lettered suffixes, but were denied in 1958 by the American Association of State Highway Officials (forerunner to the AASHTO). [7] The last section of the Interstate Highway system to be built in Oregon, on I-82 near Hermiston, opened on September 20, 1988. [8]
Oregon Route 99E Business (OR 99E Business) is a business route through Salem, Oregon for Oregon Route 99E, which bypasses downtown via Interstate 5 (I-5). A portion of this highway was originally planned to be a freeway, signed as Interstate 305; however the proposed freeway was cancelled after community opposition.
In the U.S. state of Oregon, there are two systems for categorizing roads in the state highway system: named state highways and numbered state routes.Named highways, such as the Pacific Highway No. 1 or the North Umpqua Highway East No. 138, are primarily used internally by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) whereas numbered routes, such as Interstate 5 (I-5), U.S. Highway 20 (US ...
OR 99E north to I-5 north – Salem, Portland: Eastern end of concurrency with OR 99E; eastbound exit and westbound entrance: 16 1.04– 16 1.08: I-5 – Eugene, Roseburg, Salem, Portland: Exit 233 on I-5 16 6.55: OR 226 east – Crabtree, Scio, Lyons: Lebanon: 16 12.80: OR 34 west – Corvallis: Sweet Home: 16 27.07: OR 228 west (Holley Road ...
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After crossing the Willamette River, I-5 intersects Oregon Route 126, which carries I-105, and Oregon Route 569; both highways provide connections to Eugene and Springfield. I-5 then travels due north through farmland on the east side of the Willamette River, passing a junction with US 20 in Albany, and bisects eastern Salem near the state ...