It doesn’t add up:Â You can’t be accountable, unless you actually do “accounting.” HB 2025, the “transportation package” in the Oregon Legislature purports to address ODOT’s massive financial problem, but only makes them worse The
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What City Observatory Did This Week The ODOT accountability charade. The pat political answer to the problem of chronic cost-overruns on Oregon DOT highway projects running into the hundreds of millions of dollars is that
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Every time Oregonians are asked to pony up more money for roads, ODOT trots out a report saying that they’re definitely going to improve their management and stop blowing through budgets. And they’re doing it
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Why does Oregon’s massive new highway bill make no provision for the rising cost of the state’s most expensive highway project? Why are officials continuing to delay release of new, higher cost estimates that they’ve
The elephant in Hearing Room A Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week ODOT hiding cost overruns. Despite widespread bloviation about the need for “accountability,” the Oregon Department of Transportation is simply, and inexplicably, unaccountable for the spiraling cost of its largest
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IBR is once again delaying releasing a new cost estimate for the Interstate Bridge Project. It’s an ominous sign that the cost is going to be much, much higher. IBR leaders have known since January
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