Tag: Chet Orloff

  • The freeway "chad"/ghost ramp is just north of St. Patrick's Church. The picture show a functioning ramps and a stump of a ramp -taken on a day with bright blue skys This was once going to connect the Fremont Bridge to I505. (Image TLM March 2015)

    Slabtown Fun Fact #15 Ramp to Nowhere off of Fremont Bridge. Where should it go?

      1970s Alarm Bells Neighbors were alarmed when they noticed surveyors planning to clear away homes along the proposed route for I-505. The initial environment impact statement was four pages.  In November 13, 1970, the Oregonian reported in “Road Route Plan Aired” that J.H. Versed construction engineer for the State Highway Department’s metropolitan division estimated that the construction would start in 1973 after […]

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