A request from the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay to waive the $400 fee for its application to change the name of Trans-Pacific Lane to Trans-Pacific Parkway prompted Coos County commissioners Bob Main and Nikki Whitty to discuss transferring ownership of the road to the port.
The road, which extends from U.S. Highway 101 north of the McCullough Bridge almost to the end of the North Spit, is called parkway on road signs and maps. Besides Weyerhaeuser’s chip terminal, the road serves parcels the Port hopes to see used for a shipping terminal, a liquefied natural gas receiving facility and a power plant.