Draft:Capitol Highway

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Capitol Highway was initially conceived as a major thoroughfare and component of the Pacific Highway in the early 20th century.{{Cite news |date=1911-08-06 |title=Salem-Portland Road Cost Will be $80,000 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sunday-oregonian-salem-portland-road/163638112/ |access-date=2025-01-22 |work=The Sunday Oregonian |pages=44 |via=Newspapers.com}} In March 1912, the first mile and a half of the Capitol Highway from Salem had been constructed by forty-eight convicts, supervised by George F. Rogers, chairman of the Capitol Highway Commission. Thirty of the convicts secured rock from a quarry south of Salem, and the other eighteen convicts constructed the roadway on top of a gravel foundation in three courses: tough rock on the bottom, then a course of finer stone, and on the top a course of screenings, rolled and hard-packed. The labor and material cost was 60 cents a yard.{{Cite news |date=March 22, 1912 |title=Mile and a half Capitol Highway built |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-oregon-daily-journal-mile-and-a-half/148501093/ |access-date=June 3, 2024 |work=The Oregon Daily Journal |page=15 |via = Newspapers.com }}{{Cite news |date=1911-09-09 |title=Guideposts To Mark Highway Thru Oregon |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/roseburg-review-guideposts-to-mark-highw/163638785/ |access-date=2025-01-22 |work=Roseburg Review |pages=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Capitol Highway was originally opened on October 22, 1916, as a main thoroughfare between Portland and the Oregon State Capitol in Salem. It followed the route of Taylor’s Ferry Road, from the present-day Capitol Hill branch of the Multnomah County Library to the Tualatin River in Portland.{{Cite web |last=Tillyman |date=May 4, 2015 |title=Capitol Highway Approaching Hillsdale from the West |url=http://multnomahhistorical.com/capitol-highway-approaching-hillsdale-from-the-west/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516053444/http://multnomahhistorical.com/capitol-highway-approaching-hillsdale-from-the-west/ |archive-date=May 16, 2015 |publisher=Multnomah Historical Association}}

In 2023, the Southwest Capitol Highway Improvement Project was completed in which a section of Capitol Highway was improved with new multimodal infrastructure such as bike lanes and sidewalks. The project cost a total of $27.5 million.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-05 |title=The details on Portland's impressive SW Capitol Highway project |url=https://bikeportland.org/2023/05/05/the-details-on-portlands-impressive-sw-capitol-highway-project-374570 |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=BikePortland |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Redden |first=Jim |date=2023-07-01 |title=Southwest Capitol Highway reopening, improvements celebrated |url=https://www.portlandtribune.com/business/southwest-capitol-highway-reopening-improvements-celebrated/article_825c565c-1776-11ee-80c6-93ac38472089.html |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=PortlandTribune.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=KATU |date=2023-07-01 |title=Portland celebrates the reopening of SW Capitol Highway with new upgrades after 22-month closure |url=https://katu.com/news/local/portland-celebrates-the-reopening-of-sw-capitol-highway-with-new-upgrades-after-22-month-closure-multnomah-county |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=KATU |language=en}}

Capitol Highway is served in part by TriMet bus lines 1-Vermont, 39-Arnold Creek/Hillsdale, 43-Taylors Ferry/Marquam Hill, 44-Capitol Highway/Mocks Crest and 45-Garden Home.{{Cite web |title=1-Vermont |url=https://trimet.org/schedules/r001.htm |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=trimet.org}}{{Cite web |title=39-Arnold Creek/Hillsdale |url=https://trimet.org/schedules/r039.htm |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=trimet.org}}{{Cite web |title=43-Taylors Ferry/Marquam Hill |url=https://trimet.org/schedules/r043.htm |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=trimet.org}}{{Cite web |title=44-Capitol Hwy/Mocks Crest |url=https://trimet.org/schedules/r044.htm |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=trimet.org}}{{Cite web |title=45-Garden Home |url=https://trimet.org/schedules/r045.htm |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=trimet.org}}

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Capitol Highway begins at an interchange with Barbur Boulevard and OR 10. Capitol Highway continues signed as OR 10 until an interchange with Bertha Boulevard and Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, where it splits and continues west. Capitol Highway then continues generally south until it intersects with I-5 and Barbur Boulevard, after which it turns southwest, then west. After intersecting with Lesser Road, Capitol Highway continues for a short distance until it intersects with 60th and 61st Avenues, where the route ends.

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