Take my road -- please
The state is trying to give away Highway 43 between Lake Oswego and Portland, and wisely, none of the localities in question are eager to take it, even with some money attached.
We'd hate to see it go to the cities of Portland and Lake Oswego -- they'd just a bird on it, or a streetcar. It would be much more fun to turn it over to the McMenamins. Or maybe the Street Roots guys.
Why do we get the feeling it will eventually be owned by the Portland water bureau?
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Comments (7)
Toll it!!!!
Posted by Allan L. | September 14, 2011 4:12 PM
Allan, you may be prescient -- for many years the first house on Highway 43 south of the Sellwood Bridge was in fact owned by a man named Tolls.
Posted by Isaac Laquedem | September 14, 2011 5:13 PM
And the "west" White House was a brothel at the present west end of Sellwood Bridge off Hwy 43, where the forerunner Sellwood ferry landed. Then in the 50's thru early 80's Mr. Tuttle ran the old moorage that had the floating White House that had tiny rooms all serving once again sex and other things. Then after that we have Macadam Bay Club floating homes, with the land and water rights owned by CoP's Park Bureau, that has had a reputation of serving drugs. Please keep Hwy 43 institutions alive.
Posted by lw | September 14, 2011 9:57 PM
Clackamas Co transportation dept is heading an effort to bring bike paths to Hwy 43 between Pdx ane LO. CC has virtually no jurisdiction along that stretch of road that isn't in LO, and the vast majority is in either Pdx or Mult Co. If one lane is taken out of service for bicycles, a road that has very few problems will be degraded with less room for cars and busses. Perhaps that is the plan. With Lynn Peterson in Salem, it's hard to tell whose agenda this is.
Posted by Nolo | September 15, 2011 12:42 AM
lw, I think the famous White House parlor of entertainment was a couple of miles south of the bridge, near the foot of what is now Riverwood Road. At the time the road didn't run all the way to Lake Oswego. The road south from Portland followed the present route of Highway 43 to the bridge that's just north of Riverwood Road. It then curved around (there was now bridge) and continued toward the river on Riverwood Road. Palatine Hill Road intersected Riverwood Road near the south end of the bridge, just north of its present intersection with Highway 43. The White House was on Riverwood Road down near the river, below the railroad tracks.
Posted by Isaac Laquedem | September 15, 2011 8:52 AM
And the "west" White House was a brothel at the present west end of Sellwood Bridge off Hwy 43, where the forerunner Sellwood ferry landed.
Now all the screwing gets done at City Hall.
Posted by The Other Jimbo | September 15, 2011 9:39 AM
sigh . . . it is really a lovely road to drive - a car. After I got out of the gridlock in downtown caused by a stalled minivan, and got to Macadam, I had a nice drive out and back to Lake Oswego. No bikes, two lanes much of the way, a 45 MPH speed limit that was doable (and exceeded by more than a few cars), only one Tri-Met bus, no construction, no train tracks. It's a road's road. Too bad we don't have more of them in Portland.
Posted by umpire | September 16, 2011 4:49 PM