U.S. Route 30 Business (Portland, Oregon)

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U.S. Route 30 Business was a 5.56-mile[1] (8.95 km) business route for U.S. Route 30 in eastern Portland, Oregon, running along Burnside Street and Sandy Boulevard. Unlike a standard business route, neither end was at US 30 - the west end was at Oregon Route 99E (Martin Luther King Boulevard and Grand Avenue; Pacific Highway East) at the east end of the Burnside Bridge, and the east end was at U.S. Route 30 Bypass (Northeast Portland Highway) at the Interstate 205 interchange. It crossed US 30, which is concurrent with Interstate 84, at around its midpoint. The whole route was the Sandy Boulevard Highway No. 59 (see Oregon highways and routes) until July 10, 2003, when it was given to the city (along with an adjacent part of Route 99E a month later).[2] The US 30 Business designation was removed from what had become a city street on July 5, 2007.[3]

Though the west end was just south of an interchange with US 30/I-84, there are no ramps pointing in the correct direction. The reason for this strange end is that US 30 originally exited I-84 there and ran south on Route 99E, and then turned west onto the Burnside Bridge through downtown. (It continued along Burnside Street, 18th Avenue/19th Avenue, Vaughn Street, Wardway Street and St. Helens Road.) When US 30 was realigned to use Interstate 5 and Interstate 405 around the north side of downtown, US 30 Business remained the same (except for a one-block extension west from Route 99E northbound, resulting in a milepost of -0.05 for the west end at Route 99E southbound).

[edit] Major intersections

The entire route is in Portland, Multnomah County.

Mile[4] Destinations Notes
-0.05 To I-5 south / Burnside Bridge to Naito Parkway – Salem Continuation beyond OR 99E
-0.05 OR 99E to I-5 north / I-84 east / US 30 east – Oregon City, The Dalles
0.36 Burnside Street
1.89 I-84 / US 30 to I-5 – Portland City Center Interchange
4.52 OR 213 (82nd Avenue)
5.51
US 30 Byp. (Columbia Boulevard, Sandy Boulevard) to I-205

[edit] References

  1. ^ Oregon Department of Transportation, Digital Video Log
  2. ^ Oregon Department of Transportation, Jurisdictional Transfer Amendments to the Oregon Highway Plan (PDF)
  3. ^ Oregon Department of Transportation, Descriptions of US and OR Routes, July 2007, accessed May 2008
  4. ^ Oregon Department of Transportation, Public Road Inventory (primarily the Digital Video Log), accessed April 2008