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

Stats

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

Contact Us

Joe Squire, PE
ODOT Project Manager
Work: (541) 875-2859

Eric Knapp
ODOT Assistant Project Manager
Work: (541) 875-2824

Gene Wilborn, PE
ODOT Assistant Project Manager
Work: (541) 875-2836

Rick Little
ODOT Public Information Officer
Work: (541) 726-2442

Project Addresses

US 20 PME Project Mailing Address:
PO Box 67
Eddyville, OR 97343

US 20 PME Project Office Street Address:
20362 Highway 20
Eddyville, OR 97343

US 20 PME 24 hour information line work24 hour information line:
1 (866) 780-8489

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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

Designbuild

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:

  1. Preliminary Planning
  2. Final Engineering (Design)
  3. Selection of a construction contractor (Bid)
  4. 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.

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