Portland Photos from the 1970s
The I-405 ramps to the Fremont Bridge under construction (1972). Note the row houses at the middle left of picture.
[Photo courtesy of Oregon Department of Transportation]
Who remembers the Thurman-Vaughn corridor (1974 above), proposed route of the I-505 freeway?
[Photo courtesy of Oregon Department of Transportation]
By the late thirties traffic was mounting on city streets and planners were envisioning a through arterial along Front, over the Steel Bridge and north on Interstate to the Columbia River.
[Photo courtesy of Oregon Department of Transportation]
By the late sixties, planners had Intersate highway funds and were adding much wider freeways coursing north and south through the City on the east side of the Willamette River.
[Photo courtesy of Oregon Department of Transportation]
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