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The $9.8 million slide repair and bridge project started in 2020 on State Route 27, Suck Creek Road, is on track for an August finish and could be completed early, according to the Tennessee Department of Transportation. ....
Power out for an unprecedented 300k Oregonians after weekend storm. Still unclear when full power will return. Updated Feb 16, 2021; Posted Feb 15, 2021 Ice damage and downed tree branches at SE 70th and Carlton in Portland on Feb. 15, 2021. Facebook Share In the pantheon of Portland area weather events, this weekend’s snow and ice storm wasn’t the biggest, longest or coldest. But by one important yardstick – the number of people who lost power, and potentially the duration of those outages – this weekend’s storm appears to be an unprecedented doozy. At their peak, Oregon’s two largest electric utilities, Portland General Electric and PacifiCorp, had well over 300,000 combined customers without power, a significant driver of Gov. Kate Brown’s decision to declare a state of emergency on Saturday. ....
Oregon maps first safety corridor, where fines double February 07 2021 High crash rates prompt Marion County to become the first in Oregon to designate a safety corridor establishing the McKay/Yergen/Ehlen Safety Corridor The north Marion County rural-road connection between I-5 and the Dundee Bypass is now a designated safety corridor. Marion County announced Wednesday, Feb. 3, that it became the first Oregon county to designate a local safety corridor, establishing the route consisting of McKay, Yergen and Ehlen roads, roughly through the St. Paul, Donald to Aurora areas, with that classification. In recent years Marion County Public Works, Oregon Department of Transportation and the Marion County Sheriff s Office have heightened focus on public safety in the area where speeding motorists often imperil farm vehicles and other slower traffic on the rural roads. ....