Pens down!
The price of ODOT’s trouble plagued Rose Quarter project has quadrupled to $1.9 billion, and the agency has no way to pay for it, because it spent the money the Legislature provided in 2017 on
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Extend and Pretend: ODOT’s Zombie Rose Quarter project
The Oregon Department of Transportation is playing “Extend and Pretend” with the $1.9 billion I-5 Rose Quarter Freeway widening project The cost of the 1.5 mile freeway widening has quadrupled from $450 million in 2017
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The Week Observed, July 7, 2023
What City Observatory did this week Yet another exploding whale:Â One of the Internet’s most popular videos shows employees of the Oregon Department of Transportation blowing up a dead whale carcass stranded on an Ocean
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Another exploding whale: ODOT’s freeway widening cost quadruples
It now looks like Oregon DOT’s I-5 Rose Quarter $450 million freeway widening project will cost more than $1.9 billion The project’s estimated cost has nearly quadrupled in just six years, and still has further cost
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Testimony to the Oregon Transportation Commission
On June 28, 2023, City Observatory’s Joe Cortright testified to the Oregon Transportation Commission about the agency’s dire financial situation. Background:Â The Oregon Department of Transportation is pushing a multi-billion dollar freeway widening program in
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The Week Observed, June 30, 2023
What City Observatory did this week Scratch one flat top! That was the famous cry of US Naval aviators, when, early in World War II they chalked up their first victory, sinking the Japanese aircraft
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