Boondoggle: Oregon Highway Widening Gets 'Reconnecting Communities' Cash — Streetsblog USA (usa.streetsblog.org)
The highway cap is not the reason this project is so expensive. The real expense comes from doubling the width of the existing highway — something that ODOT has gone to great pains to conceal. The existing roadway is 82 feet wide, and ODOT’s plans — which were not revealed publicly, but which we obtained via a public...