Bike Loud says ‘Stop the STIP’ as state moves toward Friday vote
The three latest funding scenarios. (Source: ODOT)
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$2.2 billion funding vote delayed as ODOT pushes new funding plans at final hour
As if this process isn’t complex enough for the public, details of the four funding plans (aka “scenarios”) on the right weren’t made available until 12:00 noon Tuesday — an hour before they were scheduled to be voted on.
Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio is very skeptical of congestion pricing
ODOT Assistant Director Travis Brouwer (left) and U.S. House Rep. Peter DeFazio at the hearing yesterday.
(Photos: C-SPAN)
It’s not easy to make an Oregon Department of Transportation official sound like a progressive on any transportation issue; but that’s exactly what U.S. Congressman Peter DeFazio did at a House Transportation Committee hearing in Washington D.C. yesterday where the veteran lawmaker’s skepticism around congestion pricing was on full display.
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