On Monday 27 December 2004 06:04 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > I84 goes from Echo, Utah west to Portland, Oregon. Over much of its > length US30 is closely parallel or shares the same pavement. In > several cities along I84, it appears that US30 is the de facto > business route, and I84 the city by-pass.
And then there's where I'm at. I'm a two block walk from the corner of US-30 BUS, US-30 and I-84. Go closer into Portland and it becomes US-30 (which continues past I-84's Exit 0 at the Pan-American Freeway (I-5) and being the primary reason for left exits in Portland), I-84, US-30 BUS, and US-30 BYP (and all wind like rivers through town). The US-30s rejoin each other near Sauvie Island (the world's largest inland island, and the defacto place for most of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington to go to the beach ever since Hayden Island (and it's formerly world famous Jantzen Beach, that which spawned Portland Swimwear, Jantzen Swimwear and Columbia Sportswear); the Columbia River stays between 40 and 70 year round whereas the Pacific Ocean stays in the 30s to low 40s year round here. There's talks about making this side of I-84 on the same street US-26 BYP to match US-30BYP on the other side of the freeway by the walmart, since most people going between Portland and Government Camp don't screw around with the 350+ traffic lights on US-26 from the Oregon Zoo to Boring, and taking the main drag through Wood Village is a major tourist cutoff, being the last exit you can take to get to the ski villages for 55+ miles. > Walmarts tend to be located at major highway junctions in the western > US. There are, at most a few dozen possible locations, all in Idaho > and Oregon. Nailed it! Wood Village owes it's entire existence to 30, 30By, 84 and possibly in the future, 26By. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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