The Interstate Bridge Replacement project, which is tasked with replacing a bridge that connects Washington and Oregon, is facing alarming delays, cost escalations and seemingly deceptive behavior from officials. These problems are symptoms of broader issues in North American transportation spending.
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They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Oregon policymakers seem to disagree, as they plan to pour $30 million of taxpayer money into reviving container shipping services at the Port of Portland…even though it’s been a consistent economic failure.
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The I-5 Rose Quarter project is proving to be extremely costly, and those costs are directly related to the excessive width of the project—something that ODOT has gone to great lengths to conceal.
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Engineers would have us believe that we’re just one shiny new technology away from making streets safer for people walking.
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ODOT maintains it will use tolls to pay for the I-5 Rose Quarter Freeway widening project, but that it doesn’t need to evaluate tolling as part of the project’s environmental assessment, because tolling isn’t “reasonably foreseeable.”
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ODOT’s expansion of I-205—and subsequent tolling—might make it so that the average household will be spending 8.7% of their household income on transportation needs.
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No matter how many solar panels it has, your parking garage isn’t green, and especially if you don’t charge parking.
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Portland and Oregon leaders shouldn’t commit to a $5-billion project without an investment grade analysis (IGA) of toll revenues.
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The Oregon DOT has experienced massive cost overruns on all of its largest construction projects…and has systematically concealed and understated the frequency and scale of those cost overruns.
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We keep looking for villains to blame for the housing affordability crisis—but are we pointing fingers at the wrong culprits?
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Widening freeways is no way to promote equity.
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Kentucky and Indiana wasted a billion dollars on highway capacity that people don’t use or value.
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Next month, the Portland Metro government is being asked to approve $36 million in additional funds for further planning of a massive freeway project. It should say no.
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Oregon’s Department of Transportation is making phony claims that widening highways reduces pollution. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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How we embrace socialism for car storage in the public right of way.
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ODOT has resorted to some truly cheap and deceptive marketing tactics to promote their new freeway-widening project.
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The Oregon Department of Transportation has been authorized to issue revenue bonds to finance potentially billions of dollars of highway widening projects.
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Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood survived the 1921 race massacre, only to be ultimately destroyed by a more unrelenting foe: interstate highways.
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A malignant legacy lives on through a recent bill proposed in Oregon.
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A proposed new “diverging diamond” interchange in Massachusetts is being sold as pedestrian-friendly. In truth, it is a profoundly pedestrian-hostile design.
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