Highway (which became State Route 821). A new route for US 97 through Bend, named the Bend Parkway, was proposed in the 1980s and opened in September 2001, relocating of the highway onto an elevated expressway through the city that cost $113 million to construct. A full freeway or bypass of Bend was also considered, but they were rejected due to funding and space constraints. A bypass in Redmond was opened in April 2008 at a cost of $90 million, moving US 97 onto a limited-access road around the east side of downtown Redmond. Plans for other bypasses in La Pine and Madras, as well as four-laning the entire highway in Oregon, have been proposed but not funded by the state government. In 2013, the cost of upgrading all of US 97 to a four-lane highway with limited access was estimated to be $10 billion. Proposed Alaska expansion An extension of US 97 to the state of Alaska was proposed in the 1950s and 1960s to promote the corridor as a continuous international highway. The Alaska International Rail and Highway Commission lobbied for the designation of US 97 from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Mexico City in the late 1950s; they were followed by a 1960s proposal from the Okanogan Cariboo Trail Association for a longer corridor to complement the Pan-American Highway. Their proposal would also have US 97 continue west to terminate in Nome, Alaska. AASHO formally approved the Alaska extension of US 97 in December 1964, subject to the renumbering of highways in the Yukon Territory and British Columbia to match the "97" designation. The proposed extension would have followed Alaska Route 2 (AK-2) from the Yukon border to Fairbanks, terminating at a junction with AK-3. British Columbia had already renumbered its section to Highway 97, but the Yukon Territory declined a request from the Alaska Department of Highways to renumber Yukon Highway 1. Major intersections California in Weed Oregon near Klamath Falls in Bend in Redmond in Madras; joined for approximately near Shaniko at Biggs Junction Washington in Maryhill; joined for approximately in Toppenish near Union Gap; joined with US 12 for approximately until Yakima and with I-82 for approximately until Ellensburg in Yakima near Ellensburg; joined with I-90 for approximately near Peshastin; joined for approximately until Orondo near Wenatchee near East Wenatchee near Chelan near Okanogan; joined for approximately until Tonasket at the Canada–US border near Oroville See