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Archive Home > 2006 > May > 05 > Widening Highway 97

Widening Highway 97

As traffic thickens on the state's main east-side highway, state officials and the Bend chamber consider making U.S. Highway 97 four lanes from border to border. Most of the region's businesses like the idea.

By Chuck Chiang / The Bulletin
May 5, 2006

Should U.S. Highway 97 in Oregon be a four-lane freeway from the Columbia River to the California border?

That's the question some Central Oregonians are asking after a state transportation official broached the subject last week.

Stuart Foster, chairman of the Oregon Transportation Commission,....

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