The First of a New Generation finally is ready. Steel has been placed, piling driven, concrete poured and reinforcing cable tightened to give the Interstate 205 Bridge its strength and graceful shape. About 1 p.m. Wednesday, Washington and Oregon dignitaries will symbolically join a ribbon near the bridge's north end to mark the opening of the eight lane structure. It has been more than five years since the first shovel of dirt was turned. Others are being built.
Buses use it all day.
Dikeway unfinished, closed. Put into intersate 205 plan, 1964. Oregon and Washinton sign design, constructions pact, October 1969. Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge, after the powerful, late Oregon businesman and Oregon Transportation Commission head.