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"