What City Observatory Did This Week ODOT’s “Strategic Review”: Conflicted consultants whitewashing mis-management. The Oregon Department of Transportation is again trying convince the Legislature and the public that it isn’t incompetent at managing highway construction.Â
The Week Observed, March 28, 2025 Read Post »
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT’) has a big management problem: huge cost overruns on highway mega-projects. Just three Portland area highway projects—The Interstate Bridge Replacement, the I-5 Rose Quarter freeway widening and the I-205
ODOT’s “Strategic Review”: Conflicted consultants whitewashing mis-management Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week ODOT’s real financial problem isn’t revenue. ODOT’s financial crisis isn’t a result of falling revenue, instead it has been caused by massive cost overruns on highway expansion megaprojects, extravagant
The Week Observed, March 21, 2025 Read Post »
ODOT and WSDOT are over-estimating future traffic on the I-5 bridge because they’re over stated the willingness to pay for travel time savings The result will be an under-utilized, over-built I-5 bridge, and congestion on
Value of Time: Mis-estimating tolls and traffic Read Post »
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) blames its financial crisis on declining revenue from cleaner, more efficient cars. The reality is that the agency suffers from chronic overspending on highway megaprojects. Motor fuel revenue is
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What City Observatory Did This Week Pretending Work-from-Home Never Happened. Oregon and Washington highway department’s are planning for a $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Project based on assumptions that pretend that the Covid pandemic and work-from-home
The Week Observed, March 14, 2025 Read Post »
