President Obama heading to the Pacific Northwest tomorrow morning

Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma will make two stops in the Pacif­ic North­west tomor­row before head­ing to Cal­i­for­nia for the week­end, the White House has confirmed.

The Pres­i­dent will depart Joint Base Andrews around 9:15 AM East­ern for a cross-coun­try flight to Eugene, Ore­gon. Oba­ma is sched­uled to land in Track Town USA around 11:40 AM Pacif­ic. At the Eugene Air­port, he will like­ly trans­fer to a Siko­rsky VH-3D Sea King or VH-60N White­Hawk oper­at­ed by the Marine Corps and fly into Rose­burg by heli­copter. The Pres­i­den­t’s meet­ing with vic­tims of the Umpqua Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege Shoot­ing will hap­pen at around 12:40 PM.

By 2:45 PM, Oba­ma will be back in Eugene for a forty minute flight to Seat­tle. He’s sched­uled to touch down at Boe­ing Field around 3:45 PM.

After land­ing, the Pres­i­dent will trav­el by motor­cade to the West­in in Seat­tle for fundrais­ing events. He has a DNC round­table first at 4:20 PM, then will speak at a din­ner for Pat­ty Mur­ray around 6 PM. (Orig­i­nal­ly, it was going to be a lun­cheon, but it was resched­uled to accom­mo­date the Pres­i­den­t’s plans to vis­it Roseburg.)

By 7 PM, Oba­ma will be back at Boe­ing Field and depart­ing for San Fran­cis­co. He’ll do anoth­er DNC round­table there in the evening before retir­ing for the night. The Pres­i­dent will spend the rest of the week­end in Cal­i­for­nia before return­ing to D.C.

The Secret Ser­vice and State Patrol will like­ly shut down I‑5 so the Pres­i­den­t’s motor­cade can get in and out of down­town Seat­tle. These clo­sures will hap­pen dur­ing the Fri­day evening rush, and will cause traf­fic all over the region to back up. The Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion urges all com­muters to plan accordingly.

Sound Tran­sit advises:

There will be sev­er­al street clo­sures tomor­row, Fri­day, Octo­ber 9^th from 10 AM — 7 PM for Pres­i­dent Obama’s visit.

All tran­sit rid­ers should expect sig­nif­i­cant delays on all ST Express routes that trav­el through down­town Seat­tle. Please mon­i­tor media reports, WSDOT and SDOT for the lat­est traf­fic con­di­tions. Con­sid­er oth­er routes or alter­nate work sched­ules, and allow a lot of extra trav­el time. Due to the street clo­sures the fol­low­ing routes will be rerout­ed. Please vis­it the Alerts page for details on missed stops.

Routes:

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• 545
• ⁵⁷⁷⁄₅₇₈
• 592
• ⁵⁹⁰⁄₅₉₄
• 595

Last­ly, if you’re inter­est­ed, The Eugene Reg­is­ter-Guard has a lengthy sto­ry pre­view­ing the Pres­i­den­t’s vis­it to Rose­burg, which gives voice to a num­ber of ardent con­ser­v­a­tives who are unhap­py that the Pres­i­dent is com­ing to town.