ODOT Federal Affairs Advisor Travis Brouwer speaking at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit on Wednesday.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) The Oregon Department of Transportation has just released their National Highway System Expansion Working Group Report (PDF). The report is an attempt to clarify the impacts and concerns surrounding a major change to how local streets are … Read more
NW Broadway is a federally controlled piece of the National Highway System.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) We continue to track an interesting policy development that could have wide-ranging impacts on several local streets here in Portland. As we first shared back in September, the new federal transportation bill, MAP-21, included an expansion of the National Highway … Read more
“We’ll make the best of it and hope we can find good ways to make this work so it doesn’t present a burden or pose unnecessary impacts on communities.”— Travis Brouwer, ODOT Federal Affairs Officials at the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) say they are “scrambling” to comply with a provision in the new federal … Read more