Need tickets to sold out concerts? Check Craigslist. Looking for a new apartment? Check Craigslist. In the market for bridge beams 93 to 115 feet long? You probably won't find them on Craigslist, but you could through the state-agency equivalent: an interoffice memo. When ODOT realized it had more than 200 concrete and steel beams available for re-use, the agency reached out to department managers, local liaisons and groups such as the Association of Oregon Counties and the League of Oregon Cities.

Every day thousands of cars and trucks travel Interstate 84 - it's a vital route for the transportation of goods and services in Oregon. On a cold and windy December day, with traffic whizzing by only feet away, ODOT gave representatives front the Federal Highway Administration a tour of the I-84 Sandy River Bridge Project site. 

Area improvements

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The Oregon Department of Transportation's State Radio Project has partnered with the Department of Administrative Services' Surplus Property section to sell more than 800 surplus Kenwood TK-790 radios. As part of the radio's project's mandate to upgrade the state's emergency response communication system, these radio's have replaced with Harris Unity radios in the Oregon State Police and ODOT Maintenance vehicles around the state.

The Kenwood radios still have useful operating life and are capable of operating in the VHF frequency range in analog narrowband mode. The radios have not been tested, but were operational when removed from service. They are being sold "as is". Most of the radios come with microphones; however antennas and wiring harnesses are not included. The radios will be sold in lots of six for $960.00 to any agencies currently eligible to purchase from the Surplus Property Section.