Portland’s Metro regional government would be committing planning malpractice and enabling lasting fiscal and environmental damage if it goes along with state highway department freeway widening plans The proposed $5 billion, 5-mile long, 12-lane freeway
The opposite of planning: Why Metro should stop I-5 Bridge con Read Post »
ODOT has repeatedly lied and misled Portland’s leaders about major highway projects No one should take at face value its assurances or representations A warning from one of Portland’s past leaders about the deceptive high
Don’t Repeat the Hard Earned Lessons of the Failed CRC Read Post »
The intentionally misleading re-brand of the failed Columbia River Crossing conceals the key fact that it is a 12-lane wide, 5 mile long freeway that just happens to cross a river, not a “bridge replacement.”
The real “I-5” project: $5 billion, 5 miles, $5 tolls Read Post »
Buried in an Oregon Department of Transportation presentation earlier this month is an acknowledgement that the I-5 bridge replacement “contribution” from Oregon will be as much as $1 billion—up from a maximum of $850 million
Oregon’s I-5 bridge costs just went up $150 million Read Post »
