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Thanks to a nearly six-week Republican walkout in the Oregon Senate that just ended last week, state legislators lost a lot of time they could've used to hash out bills. With the legislative session set to adjourn June 25, elected officials in Salem are now scrambling to pass important bills so they can get signed into law before time runs out. One piece of legislation set to advance tomorrow, House Bill 5005, establishes the amount...

Despite favorable design upgrades, environmental advocates say the Oregon Department of Transportation’s plans to widen Interstate 5 in the Rose Quarter are inconsistent with the state’s own climate goals.

The revived effort to replace the Interstate 5 bridge connecting Portland and Vancouver took a major step forward Thursday morning when transportation engineers proposed a preliminary bridge design to regional politicians and stakeholders. Oregon and Washington leaders committed to replacing the interstate bridge in 2019, citing seismic vulnerability and traffic congestion. In a presentation to the project’s Executive Steering Group (ESG)—which is made up of transportation officials ...

Portland Public School (PPS) representatives reiterated their skepticism of the Interstate 5 expansion project, as well as their distrust of the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), in an intergovernmental meeting Thursday evening. ODOT representatives presented the latest updates of the Rose Quarter Project—ODOT’s nearly $800 million plan to add two new lanes to a 1.7 mile stretch of I-5 in Northeast Portland to reduce congestion and fender benders—to the PPS Board of E...

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) must update its environmental assessment for the proposed changes to the Interstate-5 corridor through the Rose Quarter, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) decided this week. ODOT anticipated the federal ruling and is still confident it can still start project construction by late 2023, while environmental advocates see the decision as a step towards a more rigorous environmental evaluation of the project. Because the I-5 Rose Quarter project...

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