Kotek tells ODOT: Scrap regional tolling plans
What a waste of time and effort. Now the question remains: Where will the money come from?
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What a waste of time and effort. Now the question remains: Where will the money come from?
Tolling is full of thorns matter how you try to hold it.
A group of seven lawmakers want to rewrite existing law and prevent the Oregon Department of Transportation from establishing a tolling system on Interstate 205, unless all the funds to go widening the freeway. When the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 2017 (“Keep Oregon Moving”) in 2017 they directed the Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC, the … Read more
The feds will now have their say.
The best “value pricing” is no freeway expansions to begin with.