I-5 Rose Quarter Project
Willamette Week highlights ODOT’s deceptive Rose Quarter freeway expansion plans
It’s one thing for critiques of a project to swirl around transportation and advocacy circles; it’s another thing when a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter hops onto the story. That’s what happened today with the Willamette Week’s publication of an article titled Questions About the Footprint of the I-5 Rose Quarter Project Intensify. The news that ODOT … Read more
Opinion: ODOT-written articles in the Tribune mislead the public
There’s also no disclaimer that the views expressed are not those of the Business Tribune or that the articles are part of a publishing partnership between the Tribune and ODOT.
ODOT won’t commit to healthy air quality for Harriet Tubman Middle School students
“‘Improve’ [air quality] is not the standard we want… You could have technically an improvement, but it could be immaterial and the air is still not safe for and healthy for children.” — Julia Brim-Edwards, Portland Public Schools Board member Even though drivers on Interstate 5 through north Portland already emit unhealthy levels of toxic … Read more
Metro candidate Mary Nolan’s record on freeway expansion projects
“I trust ODOT to deliver the plan… They’ve made compromises. And I think we should move on.”— Mary Nolan on I-5 Rose Quarter project (5/5/20)
ODOT says new advisory committee will have ‘tremendous power’ to ‘reshape’ I-5 project
The Oregon Department of Transportation has made a new promise regarding their controversial I-5 Rose Quarter project. Asked Friday by the host of Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud radio show about how much power the forthcoming Historic Albina Advisory Board (HAAB) would have to influence the project, ODOT’s Director of Urban Mobility Brendan Finn … Read more
Former ODOT committee members blast agency for silencing opposition
14 former members of an Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) advisory committee have signed onto a letter that says they’re “deeply suspicious” of the agency and that they were shut out of the process because they “didn’t play ball” on the I-5 Rose Quarter project. As we reported on September 2nd, ODOT abruptly shut down … Read more