It's all about Safety
The goal of this project is to make the highway from Corvallis to Newport safer. This is accomplished by:
- Eliminating deadly, hairpin curves with a 6.5-mile stretch of new roadway
- Eliminating railroad crossings
- Removing visual barriers for motorists by straightening and elevating the highway
- Easing congestion by eliminating miles of no-passing zones with two wide lanes of travel, wide shoulders and passing lanes
- Making bridges safer by building 8 new bridges with the strongest seismic standards available, a critical improvement since US 20 is considered a lifeline to the coast in the event of a regional emergency
Who Benefits?
This is the last significant unimproved section of US 20 between Newport and the Willamette Valley. Traffic volumes grow larger every year. The need for safe, efficient travel is increasing with all highway users:
- Local residents who need access to both the urban and rural areas of the mid- coast and the Willamette Valley
- Tourists who have made this a very popular recreation corridor
- Truckers who haul products from forest to mill to market
- Businesses and communities who rely on the highway to deliver goods and people to their doorsteps
Statistics
| Length of new U.S. 20 section |
6.5 miles |
| Length of old section |
10 miles |
| Earth moved in 2008 |
1.3 million cubic yards |
| Earth moved in 2009 |
1.81-million cubic yards |
| Earth blasted in 2008 |
300,000 cubic yards |
| Earth blasted in 2009 |
940,000 cubic yards |
| Amount of Flexterra & seed in 2009 |
450,000 pounds |
| Amount of fertilizer applied in 2009 |
26,145 pounds |
| Number of haul trucks in 2009 |
28 |
| Number of bulldozers in 2009 |
17 |
| Number of excavators in 2009 |
20 |
| Number of drill rigs in 2009 |
11 |
| Number of graders in 2009 |
4 |
Welcome!
The Oregon Department of Transportation is proud to be managing this project and proud to partner with Yaquina River Constructors on the largest combined road and bridge construction project underway in the state of Oregon.
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The Prime Contractor on the Pioneer Mountain to Eddyville project has a weekly payroll of $1-million.
- The work week is six days
- There are two 10-hour shifts per day
- 95% of all staff are Oregonians
- Between January 1 and August 15, 2009, there were 165,821 hours of labor logged
- In the week ending July 25, 2009, a record 15,654 hours of labor were logged
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Design / Build
What is "Design/Build?" Design/Build is the design/construction technique in which design and construction are combined under one contract to reduce the time necessary to complete a project. Traditional highway construction projects are developed in four distinct phases:
- Preliminary Planning
- Final Engineering (Design)
- Selection of a construction contractor (Bid)
- Project Construction
Design/Build is heralded by the construction industry as a modern approach that encourages innovation, allows shorter construction time, and promotes environmental stewardship. This method has been successfully implemented on many of the largest and most complicated highway construction projects in the country. The time saved by Design/Build translates into a significant reduction in construction impacts for the residents and businesses along highway 20.
» Learn more about “Design / Build” on Wikipedia.
