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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...
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...
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...
It doesn’t add up: 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...
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,...