Oregon Route 217

Oregon Route 217

Oregon Route 217 marker

Oregon Route 217
Route information
Maintained by ODOT
Length: 7.52 mi[1] (12.10 km)
Major junctions
South end: I-5 (big).svg I-5 in Lake Oswego
  OR 99W.svg OR 99W in Tigard
OR 141.svg OR 141 in Tigard
OR 210.svg OR 210 in Beaverton
OR 141.svg OR 141 in Beaverton
OR 8.svg OR 10.svg OR 8 and OR 10 in Beaverton
North end: US 26.svg US 26 in Beaverton
Highway system

Oregon highways
Routes • Highways

OR 216 OR 218

Oregon Route 217 is an Oregon state highway which serves the western suburbs of Portland. OR 217 is a limited-access freeway which connects U.S. Route 26 with Interstate 5.

OR 217 consists of the Beaverton-Tigard Highway No. 144 (see Oregon highways and routes).

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Route description

For most of its length, OR 217 is a freeway with two travel lanes in each direction, with a third weave lane for exiting and merging, with the exception of its two termini.

The northern terminus of OR 217 is an interchange with US 26, at that point a freeway known as the Sunset Highway. OR 217 proceeds south, through the suburbs of Beaverton and Tigard. The southern terminus of OR 217 is an interchange with I-5 at exit 292 (292A for northbound traffic)

Commuters heading towards either terminus will find themselves on surface streets if they fail to exit. Indeed, southbound travelers wishing to get onto northbound I-5 have to turn left at a traffic signal; southbound travelers of I-5 wishing to become northbound travelers of OR 217 must turn right at a traffic signal at the end of the off-ramp. Traffic from I-5 North wishing to use OR 217 North used to have to make an exit and a right turn at a traffic signal. A major rebuild of the I-5/OR 217 junction around 2001 resulted in the construction of a flyover ramp, relieving the severe congestion the old design caused (compare before and after satellite photos). This reconstruction also left room for future freeway-to-freeway connections in other directions.

Traffic on OR 217 is frequently heavy, especially during rush hour. The freeway has several major design issues, one of which is the many on and off-ramps within a very short distance of each other (sometimes less than 1/4 mile). The ramps are frequently short and do not allow for gentle acceleration to freeway speeds. Once on the freeway, one finds themselves hastily jostling for position before they are forced to exit. The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is investigating a major overhaul of this route.

Before the freeway was completed in the 1970s, OR 217 ran along surface streets. It originally started at the junction of OR 8 and Hall Blvd. in Beaverton, continuing along Hall Boulevard through Beaverton, Progress, Metzger, and Tigard for 7 miles (11 km) until it reached Durham Road. There, it took a left onto Durham Road, following it for about 0.8 miles (1.3 km) until the intersection with Boones Ferry Road. It remained on Boones Ferry Road through Durham, Tualatin, and Wilsonville for about 8 miles (13 km), crossing the Willamette River on a ferry and continuing south for another 5 miles (8.0 km) until finally ending at U.S. Route 99E at Aurora, for a grand total of about 20 miles (32 km) or so. The southern terminus was scaled back to Wilsonville (current I-5 exit 286) with the completion of I-5 to Portland. This older highway, called the Beaverton-Aurora Highway, was kept in the state highway system as the Beaverton-Tualatin Highway No. 141, and was recently given the route designation OR 141.

217 at Oregon 210

Exit list

Exits are numbered from north to south. The entire route is in Washington County.

Location Mile[1] # Destinations Notes
Beaverton 0.00 Barnes Road Northbound exit and southbound entrance
0.01 US 26 (Sunset Highway) – Tillamook, Astoria, Portland Northbound exit and southbound entrance
0.19 Cedar Hills Northbound exit and southbound entrance
0.91 1 Walker Road
1.47-
1.76
2A OR 8 (Canyon Road) / OR 10 – Beaverton
2.48 2B Allen Boulevard
3.02 3 Denney Road
3.82 4A Hall Boulevard (OR 141) Southbound exit and entrance
4.27 4B OR 210 (Scholls Ferry Road) Signed as exit 4 northbound
Tigard 4.95 5 Greenburg Road – Metzger
5.90 6 OR 99W – Tigard, McMinnville
6.69 7 72nd Avenue
7.52 I-5 – Portland, Salem
7.52 Kruse Way – Lake Oswego Continuation beyond I-5

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Oregon Department of Transportation, Public Road Inventory (primarily the Digital Video Log), accessed March 2008

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