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The Oregon Transportation Subproject covers the transportation infrastructure of the State of Oregon. This page was begun by User:Ajbenj. Please feel free to modify as needed. This is a part of the WikiProject Oregon. See the talk page for discussion about what to include on this page. See Category:Transportation in Oregon for what falls under this subproject.

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[edit] Subproject members

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[edit] Priorities

Many existing articles need expansion, are have missing external links or references, and/or need info boxes, photos, and/or other graphics. There are plenty of extremely short stubs. More than one sentence describing the article, photos, and some nice formatting really go a long way toward a good article!

[edit] History of Oregon transportation

Below are notes for a future article on the history of transportation in Oregon. Chronological for now, but grouping by topic might be worthwhile.

[edit] Highways

There already are good articles and groups working to keep track of highways and roads, but we ought to keep an eye on our own routes and highways. Some need pictures, some need graphics or maps, and others simply need to be created! Here are a few resources to help find things needing to be done:

[edit] Bridges

There are a lot of articles about Oregon Bridges that we can better organize, add, and/or expand articles on:

[edit] Rail

There is a lot to cover here. We should start by getting the present rail infrastructure covered. There are other collaborations working on railroad-related articles, and we should respect the established templates of existing pages. New pages should be formatted in the same way as similar rail-related pages, if possible.

Historic railroads, non-active rail passenger stations, old trolley systems, heritage lines and museums, interurbans, "fallen flags", can generally fall into this category, although they can also fit into the scope of the Oregon History subproject.

Some resources and ideas on where to start:

Perhaps getting the Amtrak stations filled in will encourage other state projects to complete their lists.

[edit] Air

This will cover any aircraft-related infrastructure in Oregon: airlines, airports, seaplane ports, etc. So far all the scheduled service airports in the state have articles, although there are many that can be expanded.

[edit] Airports

Every existing Oregon Airport - public and private - now has an article. However they are in need of expansion and protected from being an orphan. Check out the airports here: Category:Airports in Oregon

There are several redlinked Military and former airports that are in need of articles. Feel free to pitch in at the bottom of the List of airports in Oregon.

[edit] Aviation companies

Oregon aviation related companies in need of articles:

  • Oregon Aero Scappoose, Oregon major aircraft seat manufacturer
  • American Blimp Corporation Hillsboro, Oregon Manufacturer of blimps, such as the famous Snoopy Metlife Blimps

Aviation articles needing expansion:

There is now a category for aviation related businesses in Oregon: Category:Aviation companies based in Oregon. So far Van's Aircraft is the only article that really has meat to it. All others are prime targets for expansion.

[edit] Ferry systems

There used to be more passenger and vehicle ferry systems than there are now in Oregon. All are in need of articles or work to expand them:

[edit] Historical

Main article: Historic ferries in Oregon

[edit] Portland area

  • Stark Street Ferry-Willamette River in Portland
  • Taylors Ferry
  • Two Columbia River Ferries between Astoria and Megler and Portland and Vancouver

[edit] Marion/Polk counties

  • Spongs Ferry-between Spong's Landing county park and Cherry Knoll Rd in Polk County (south of Wheatland, east of Zena/Lincoln) [1]Y Done
  • Doaks Ferry-South of Spongs, in community of Eola, west of Minto-Brown parkY Done
  • Halls Ferry-South of DoaksY Done (also the intriguingly named "Social Security Fishing Hole")
  • Hales Ferry needs expansion, info in OGN and here.
  • Conser's Ferry, original name of Jefferon, and Jacob Conser ref + OGN

[edit] Lane County

[edit] Existing

There are probably more, please feel free to add!

[edit] Waterways

Canals, Jettys, anything which facilitates movement of river and ocean transport.

One article comes to mind that should have a bit more meat to it is Willamette Falls Locks.


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[edit] Lighthouses

Related to ocean and river navigation:

[edit] Ports

Port Authorities, repair facilities, harbors, man-modified bays, State-designated Port areas, etc. See: Category:Ports and harbors of Oregon.

Ports
  • Port of Alsea (Waldport, Oregon)
  • Port of Arlington
  • Port of Astoria (Includes Warrenton)
  • Port of Bandon
  • Port of Brookings Harbor
  • Port of Cascade Locks
  • Port of Coquille River (Myrtle Point, Oregon)
  • Port of Garibaldi
  • Port of Gold Beach
  • Port of Hood River
  • Port of Morrow (Boardman, Oregon), Oregon's 2nd-largest port[3]
  • Port of Nehalem
  • Port of Newport
  • Port of Port Orford
  • Port of St. Helens
  • Port of Siuslaw (Florence, Oregon)
  • Port of The Dalles
  • Port of Tillamook Bay
  • Port of Toledo (Oregon)
  • Port of Umatilla
  • Port of Umpqua (Reedsport, Oregon)
Marinas
  • Pacific City Marina
  • Port of Depoe Bay ?? - perhaps should redirect to Depoe Bay, Oregon and expand port info in that article (Depoe Bay already redirects to Depoe Bay, Oregon) part of Newport port district
  • Salmon Harbor Marina (Winchester Bay, Oregon)
Sources
Need expansion
See also

[edit] Mass transit

The scope of Mass transit includes bus, urban rail, and small-scale streetcar systems. Also this includes any stations, maintenance facilities, and mass transit management agencies. Information about the history of public transportation, including trolley systems, trolley companies, former publicly-managed bus systems, and old private bus systems can go here and in the Oregon history area as well.

  • Portland:
    • Existing TriMet pages probably do not need much work, they are well-maintained, but more pictures and graphics could be added and some expanding could make the individual MAX station articles look better.
    • There could be some use for articles on the bus-only TriMet transit centers.
    • There should be an article about the Portland Transit Mall.
    • The Portland Streetcar article could use some work. Expansion, infoboxes?
    • Perhaps we should get a history of Portland transportation going? The whole scope seems a bit too broad to put in the context of just public transport though. Bridges, ferries, and roadways are also big chunks of Portland's rich transportation herritage.
  • Articles needed:
  • Albany Transit System (Oregon)
  • Astoria Riverfront Trolley
  • Basin Transit Service (Klamath Falls)
  • Bend Extended Area Transit
  • City of Woodburn Public Works Department Transit Division
  • Corvallis Transit System
  • Lincoln County Transit
  • Medford-Rogue Valley Transit District
  • Rose City Transit (TriMet predecessor in Portland)
  • Sunset Empire Transportation District (Astoria/Clatsop County)
  • Tillamook County Transportation District
  • Umpqua Public Transit (Roseburg)

The needed articles list also appears at Category:Mass transit in Oregon

[edit] Long-distance bus service

This covers the routes and facilities of large-scale bus systems, such as Greyhound, or even Amtrak Thruway.

The Portland, Oregon Greyhound Station is a sundry that needs an article.

[edit] Bicycling

Portland alone holds a large collection of bicycle-only infrastructure, such as the bike path along the length of I-205 between Oregon City and the Columbia River. This large network of bike paths may deserve articles.

Need articles
  • I-205 Bikepath — from the north end of the Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge to Clackamas(?).
  • Sunset Highway bikepath — from near Cedar Hills to the Oregon Zoo. (Proper name for this article should be researched.) Highway 26 Path?
To expand
Sources

[edit] Trails

Public trails may fall into the realm of parks, as there are many deserving of articles inside the Portland city limits maintained by the parks bureau. Large trails, such as the Pacific Crest Trail, or hiking trail networks would fall into this category.

See also: Category:Historic trails and roads in Oregon

[edit] Other

[edit] Streetcars, tramways

There is a strange little list of Oregon streetcar data here.