In the past week, decisions in Salem and Washington DC have driven a stake through the heart of the $2.1 billion plan to widen a mile-and-a-half stretch of I-5 near downtown Portland. The metaphor for
The Rose Quarter Freeway Widening is Dead Read Post »
HB 2025 doesn’t fix the Oregon Department of Transportation’s financial problem—it makes it even bigger The bill promises more than it pays for, and will lead ODOT to start projects it can’t afford to finish–without
Why Oregon’s legislators should vote “No” on HB 2025 Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week HB 2025:Â The Oregon Legislature’s “transportation package” simply doesn’t add up:Â The bill promises more than $5 billion in mega-projects but provides vastly less revenue. It doesn’t add up:Â
The Week Observed, June 20, 2025\ Read Post »
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 problems, but only makes them worse The
HB 2025: Fiscally irresponsible, feeding the megaproject machine Read Post »
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
The Week Observed, June 13, 2025 Read Post »
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 »
