Overnight winds brough trees down on area roads, littering Highways 26 and 6 with debris and taking out power for Portland General Electric and West Oregon Electric Co-op customers throughout the region. Highway 6 remained closed in Tillamook County Thursday morning.
Highway 6 was back down to one lane Thursday morning. "With similar and further sinking this morning, we expect to flag traffic until the lane can be stabilized, and the surface repaired," ODOT said in a statement. "This means the lane closure may last beyond today."
Both lanes of Highway 6 at milepost 35 are fully open, a spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Transportation said in an email to this newspaper at 3:45 p.m.
Highway 6, down to one lane since early Wednesday morning after the westbound lane at milepost 35 dropped several inches is expected to be fully reopened by 2 p.m. Wednesday, an ODOT spokesperson said.
Highway 6 is reduced to one lane at milepost 35 according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office for what the Oregon Department of Transportation described as a sunken grade.
Banks will soon be a two-stoplight town, and an open house for the project at Main Street/Cedar Canyon/Banks Road that will double the number of traffic signals in the city will be held Thursday, November 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Banks Fire District offices.
The city of Banks will close half the city to outside traffic on Halloween, according to the city, a move made at the request of local residents in the Arbor Village development, the city said.
"Timber Road is an important connector between Highway 6 and Highway 26," an August 6 Washington County Board of Commissioners agenda item to award a bid reads. "Community members, the Banks Fire District, the Oregon Department of Forestry and Stimson Lumber have all expressed support for this proje
Paving, pavement repair, chip seal paving, surface stabilization of gravel roads, and more road repairs begin today at a number of county roads in the area, and not a single rural unincorporated community this newspaper covers will be spared.
Sellers Road will be closed from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. from Banks Road to Highway 26; local access will be allowed outside of the actual culvert repair site.
