What City Observatory Did This Week Inventing a "commitment" to megaproject cost-overruns. Oregon's Department of Transportation is is trying to re-write history to create a commitment to unapproved freeway s and massive cost overruns. They're using this fiction to argue that the state is somehow obligated to pay for expensive freeway expansions and can't first fix the growing preservation and maintenance backlog on existing roads. The major transportation package passed by the 2017 Legislature authorized zero funding for the I-205 Abernethy Bridge project. In 2024, ODOT now falsely claims that the I-205 project was a “commitment” of the 2017 Legislature. Actually, the original HB 2017 only directed ODOT to produce a “cost to complete” study by 2018.
The Week Observed: June 21, 2024
The Week Observed: June 21, 2024
The Week Observed: June 21, 2024
What City Observatory Did This Week Inventing a "commitment" to megaproject cost-overruns. Oregon's Department of Transportation is is trying to re-write history to create a commitment to unapproved freeway s and massive cost overruns. They're using this fiction to argue that the state is somehow obligated to pay for expensive freeway expansions and can't first fix the growing preservation and maintenance backlog on existing roads. The major transportation package passed by the 2017 Legislature authorized zero funding for the I-205 Abernethy Bridge project. In 2024, ODOT now falsely claims that the I-205 project was a “commitment” of the 2017 Legislature. Actually, the original HB 2017 only directed ODOT to produce a “cost to complete” study by 2018.