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


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