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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.

Subproject members

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Priorities

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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!

History of Oregon transportation

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

  • Celilo Falls - hub of commerce and culture for 11,000 years
  • Spanish exploration/search for Columbia River
  • Bridge of the Gods (geologic event)
  • Robert Gray Sails the Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon, Hudson's Bay Company, Columbia Bar and jetties
  • Lewis and Clark exploration and overland settlement
  • Barlow Road and Santiam Wagon Road improve access from the east
  • Steamboats of the Columbia River, Steamboats of the Willamette River, Steamboats of the Oregon Coast
  • Samuel Hill as influential businessman/politician: Columbia River Highway, Pacific Highway
  • Glenn Jackson: Oregon's most influential Commissioner, oversaw expansion of highway infrastructure
  • Robert Moses, Jim Howell (see here: Mayer, James (December 11, 2006). "Transit activist is still on the road not taken". The Oregonian. ), Neil Goldschmidt, and the freeway revolts surrounding Harbor Drive, the Mount Hood Freeway, etc.
  • Pacific Crest Trail, MAX Light Rail, Bicycle Transportation Alliance, and other "alternative" modes of transport

Highways

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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:

Bridges

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

Rail

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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.

Air

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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.

Airports

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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.

Aviation companies

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Oregon aviation related companies in need of articles:

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.

Other

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  • Hijacking incident on Horizon Air (discussed in that article) flight from Eugene to PDX with a dumb criminal, DYK aspect to it.

Ferry systems

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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:

Historical

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Main article: Historic ferries in Oregon

Portland area

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Marion/Polk counties

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  • Spongs Ferry-between Spong's Landing county park and Cherry Knoll Rd in Polk County (south of Wheatland, east of Zena/Lincoln) [1]  Done
  • Doaks Ferry-South of Spongs, in community of Eola, west of Minto-Brown park  Done
  • Halls Ferry-South of Doaks  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

Lane County

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Existing

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There are probably more, please feel free to add!

Waterways

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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.

Lighthouses

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Related to ocean and river navigation:

Ports

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

Ports

Pacific Ocean (north to south)

Columbia River (east to west)

Marinas
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Need expansion
See also

Mass transit

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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

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  • 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.
  • 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.

Eugene

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Medford

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  • Rogue Valley Transportation District - Needs more information on funding and organizational structure. Also, the history section needs info. noting any significant developments of the 1980s and 1990s.

Articles needed

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

Long-distance bus service

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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.

Bicycling

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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
To expand
Sources

Trails

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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

Other

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Streetcars, tramways

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There is a list of Oregon streetcar systems data here.

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