The signs will reflect new street names in city of Portland neighborhoods
Contacts:
Hannah Schafer, PBOT, 971-235-8472,
Don Hamilton, ODOT, 503-704-7452
Expect occasional overnight single lane closures on Interstate 205 in Northeast Portland from Friday, June 16 through Saturday, June 24 while crews install new highway signs.
The new signs on I-205 will reflect new street names in the city of Portland’s Cully, Sumner and Parkrose neighborhoods. The new I-205 Exit 23B signs reflect the renaming of Northeast Portland Highway and Killingsworth Street to Northeast Lombard Street from 42nd Avenue to the 9900 block of Sandy Boulevard.
In the project, a partnership with the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT), the new signs will be installed during late night work in both the southbound and northbound lanes on either side of Exit 23B.
The work zone will be on I-205 between Government Island on the Glenn Jackson Bridge to the north and Gateway Transit Center to the south with all work taking place between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.
No city streets will close during the I-205 work.
These are among the final sign changes for the Columbia-Lombard Corridor Wayfinding Project, which was approved by Portland City Council in 2020 to standardize street names in North and Northeast Portland. The project renamed streets that caused confusion particularly for operators of freight vehicles and large trucks.
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