Oregon Route 569

Beltline Highway, looking east, from the Gilham Road overpass

OR 569 begins at a T-intersection with OR 126, on the western edge of Eugene. At first, as it heads north and east, it is an expressway, with one at-grade signalized intersection. Soon it becomes a two-lane freeway in each direction, as it crosses the northern edge of incorporated Eugene. From the highway, one sees mostly suburban housing and strip malls. At the eastern end, there is an interchange with I-5. Beltline becomes a local road at Gateway Street. The roadway continues, eventually reaching OR 528 in Springfield.

One other section of the initial proposal was built. This section is the stretch of 30th Avenue between the Amazon Park neighborhood and Lane Community College—a four-lane expressway which includes two interchanges. This route does not connect directly to the existing stretch of Belt Line Road.

Several enhancements to the Beltline Road have been proposed. The West Eugene Parkway, had it been built, would have intersected Beltline Road at a new interchange. Plans are underway to upgrade the interchange with the Delta Highway.[4] The I-5 interchange was upgraded in 2008.[5] The latter interchange was a full cloverleaf design, and was considered to be both obsolete and dangerous. To upgrade the interchange, a flyover bridge was built, eliminating the northeastern loop ramp and the weaving movements on northbound Interstate 5 and westbound Beltline Road. Construction is underway to redesign the nearby intersection with Gateway Boulevard.[6]

The Beltline Highway was constructed by Lane County in the 1960s and transferred to state control in 1978 as Highway 69.[7][8] The highway was assigned the Route 69 designation effective September 19, 2002.[9] However, due to the sexual connotation of the number 69, sign theft would have been an issue, and the Oregon Department of Transportation wanted to sign the route to make navigation easier during the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials,[10] so ODOT requested that the Oregon Transportation Commission change the number to 14.[11] At their January 25, 2007 meeting, the OTC decided to instead call the highway Route 569,[12][13] which kept with the pattern used in other cases where the highway number could not be used (usually because there was already a route with that number). Signs for Route 569 were posted by August 2007.[14]

The entire route is in Lane County.

Location	mi[1]	km	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Eugene	3.10	4.99		OR 126 (West 11th Avenue) – Eugene, Veneta	At-grade intersection
	4.24	6.82		Roosevelt Boulevard	At-grade intersection
	5.62	9.04	5	Barger Drive
	6.58	10.59	6	OR 99 – Eugene Airport, Junction City
	6.83	10.99	7A	Prairie Road	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	7.09	11.41	7	Northwest Expressway	Signed as exit 7B westbound
	8.47	13.63	8	River Road – Santa Clara
	9.56	15.39		River Avenue, Division Avenue	No westbound entrance
	10.05	16.17		Delta Highway, Ayres Road – Valley River Center, Downtown Eugene
	11.66	18.76	12	Coburg Road, Eugene
	12.77– 12.78	20.55– 20.57		I-5 – Roseburg, Portland	Signed as exits 13A (south) and 13B (north) westbound and 13 eastbound
Springfield	13.00	20.92		Gateway Street, Downtown Springfield	At-grade intersection
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access