ODOT will shrink bike lanes on North Rosa Parks Way
10 months after the City of Portland widened the bike lanes on North Rosa Parks Way (where it crossing Interstate 5) the Oregon Department of Transportation wants to narrow them.
The ODOT Files
The Oregon Department of Transportation has a deeply dysfunctional organizational culture that favors driving cars and trucks at the expense of everything else. The ODOT Files is a collection of stories that illustrate that fact.
ODOT cites high speeds in rejection of lower speed limit request on West Burnside
ODOT clings to an outdated policy.
Cleveland High principal worried about traffic violence on National Walkout Day
Threat of injury or death from ODOT’s SE Powell Blvd is omnipresent.
The ODOT Files: Caving to pressure, a bridge sidewalk in Grants Pass will be three inches wider
It took pressure from outside groups to get an extra three inches.
The ODOT Files: Portland Mercury checks in on freeway tolling efforts
The best “value pricing” is no freeway expansions to begin with.
Opinion: To make Portland safer, ODOT’s Rian Windsheimer must go
There needs to be a cultural change at ODOT that starts at the top.
Guest opinion: ODOT management audit misleads, omits key facts
“An audit that fails to acknowledge and document the agencies failures cannot provide any practical advice on how to prevent their recurrence.”
City, advocates say ODOT’s plans for outer Powell buffered bike lanes are not enough
Celebration for some, consternation for others.
Despite safety rhetoric, ODOT looks into raising highway truck speeds
After a bill passed in 2015, lawmakers want to expand higher highway speed limits.
Fact check: The St. Johns Bridge does not need 19-foot wide lanes for freight traffic
“In our earlier communications… we misunderstood this.”