PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Portland Bureau of Transportation is working on a temporary solution for what the city calls “unimproved roads.” Those are unpaved, gravel or dirt roads, which ...

At long last, the city’s infamous gravel roads are getting a face-lift as the Portland Bureau of Transportation begins grading and graveling the city's 50 miles of unpaved roads. PBOT began the ...

Is America's infrastructure crumbling? Cash-strapped cities are turning off their street lights. Some states are unpaving crumbling asphalt roads, replacing them with gravel. Surely it's ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Bureau of Transportation is unveiling a plan Monday to give 50 miles of gravel roads some much-needed maintenance. The Portland Gravel Street Service will grade and ...

What Krugman, Maddow, and the press corps don’t understand about gravel roads. By Jack Shafer. Aug 16, 2010 6:24 PM. Some states probably overbuilt their roads systems.

Portland has 56 miles of unpaved roads, and transportation officials say even if the City Council approves a new tax or fee for road work in November, that number will remain unchanged for years.

Young lives in Cully, a neighborhood in Northeast Portland. Her beef? More than 10 percent of Cully's streets are unpaved dirt roads. In the morning, she sends her son off to school along streets ...

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles woman and nearly 100 petitioners are asking city officials to pave the gravel roads in a residential neighborhood west of I Street. Sidney Murphy’s online petition on ...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota's ... Seven miles of State Highway 74 in Winona and Wabasha counties already are unpaved. It's the only gravel road among the more than 11,000 miles of highway maintained by ...

When Vicki Finley moved to Spring Grove several years ago, the unpaved gravel road in front of her house was a symbol of her successful departure from the development and bustle of a rapidly growin… ...