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The Rose Quarter Freeway Widening is Dead

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...

What City Observatory Did This Week HB 2025:  The Oregon Legislature’s “transportation package” simply doesn’t add up:  The bill promises more than $5 billion in mega-projects but provides vastly less...

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...

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,...

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