exploding whale day needs to be more widely celebrated as a day of ridiculing ODOT. I mean, the highway dept decides to dynamite a dead whale to try to get rid of it and they end up smashing some dude's brand new car but luckily not killing anyone with the hellfire of blubber raining from the sky, you just can't make this stuff up.
"It now looks like Oregon DOT’s I-5 Rose Quarter $450M freeway widening project will cost more than $1.9B ... quadrupled in just six years... Even OTC commissioners question whether it’s worth more than a billion dollars to widen a 1.5 mile stretch of freeway"
"already spent $114M on planning and engineering to get the project to the “30%” level of design, and says it would need an additional $100 to $140M to complete plans and acquire right of way, and a further $1.2 to $1.6B to actually build something."
They've spent 25% of the entire original budget for preliminary design!? The exploding whale shit is a little funny but people are literally getting killed on ODOT's surface streets while they 💸
@enobacon huh. I see they list “climate action” as a “value” of this project, but I don’t see any estimates of the climate savings on the “project benefits” page. It would be helpful to understand the climate efficiency of this spending. I am skeptical that “smoother traffic flow” will provide a large climate savings. https://www.i5rosequarter.org/project-values/
@Lyle The same people who say we need to "ease congestion" to save idling emissions also claim that we'll electrify transportation to make all of this Induced Demand okay (...so then the idling emissions don't matter, right? ... right?)
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