SE Jenne Road to close during sewer project - July 28th
A section of SE Jenne Road between SE Foster Road and SE 174th Ave. in east Multnomah County will be closed from Monday, July 28 until November 14, 2008 during construction of a sewer project. The City of Gresham’s Pleasant Valley sewer interceptor will provide urban services for a recently annexed area. The sewer line will be installed along SE Jenne Road, which is too narrow to remain open to through traffic during construction.
The posted detour route for through traffic between SE Powell Blvd. and SE Foster Road is SE Powell Blvd. to SE 182nd Ave./SW Highland Drive to SW Pleasant View Drive/SE 190th Ave. to SE Richey Road to SE Foster Road.
Access will be maintained for emergency vehicles, school buses and local traffic. Flaggers will direct local traffic in the construction zone.
Multnomah County maintains this section of SE Jenne Road and 300 miles of roads and bridges.
Posted on July 24, 2008
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Posted by: Alan - August 15, 2008 07:32 AM
Will there be any widening of Jenne Road with the sewer project? I'd love to see it a little more pedestrian friendly. We have several in our neighborhood (McKinley Estates) that walk this road to the bus line. Very dangerous!
Posted by: Richard - August 18, 2008 08:03 PM
As Jenne Rd is closed to through traffic as a result of construction, detours are routing traffic from Foster to Richey Rd, then north on 182nd as a detour to Powell. As you may know, 182nd turns into Linneman and intersects with Brittany Dr. IT IS NOT A DETOUR THROUGH TO POWELL!!!!! Why is traffic being detoured into our neighborhood and not out Richey Rd to 190th then to Powell? It seems the current detour is a circuitous route through a quiet residental setting rather than a direct route on streets that can handle the extra traffic. Please Help!
Posted by: Margo - October 30, 2008 11:52 AM
Although widening of the road is not happening during this project, it should happen at some point in the future. Our home is next to a deadly curve - according to rescue workers, there is, on average, one fatality a month on this stretch of curved road south of the bike path. I've had to walk this route with children myself, and it is incredibly nerve-wracking. Drivers are constantly driving too fast around the bend and causing a hazardous situation each time for fellow drivers and pedestrians. My neighbors gave up trying to maintain a fence line there as it was knocked down time and time again by wayward vehicles. This must be addressed!