ODOT’s I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project Moves Closer to Construction with Key Metro Vote

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ODOT’s I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project Moves Closer to Construction with Key Metro Vote

August 1, 2024

For more information, please contact Rose Gerber, 503-779-6927, Rose.Gerber@odot.oregon.gov.

People sitting at a table with microphones providing testimony to Metro.

I-5 Rose Quarter Project Director Megan Channell and HAAB facilitator Ericka Warren listen as JT Flowers (AVT, HAAB) testifies to Metro Council during the meeting on August 1st. Metro Council unanimously agreed to approve spending of the recent USDOT Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program federal grant award of $450 million.

The I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project moved closer to reconnecting the historic Albina community with today’s unanimous vote to approve the use of a federal grant to complete design and initiate construction of a cover over Interstate 5 (I-5).  

Metro Council unanimously agreed to approve the spending of the recent U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program federal grant award of $450 million, the largest Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program federal grant awarded to any project of its kind in the nation. The funds allow ODOT to complete the design and construct the central segment of the cover around Broadway-Weidler to support reconnection for the Albina community. Read more here.