“It’s absurd for ODOT to claim that their proposed $1.9 billion 10-lane highway is in compliance with the city’s existing plans for #climateAction, sustainable #transportation investment or neighborhood development. We filed this lawsuit because state law requires ODOT to follow the city’s #cleanAir and climate goals. ODOT shouldn’t be allowed to advance a project that brazenly violates the city’s adopted plans.” -- #NoMoreFreeways#ODOTGTFOpdx#Portland
@whitemice it's like asking whether there are good cops. Or to the extent that these people exist, is it better for them to be working for the state or freelancing? IDK, but the rules DOTs have written for themselves are inherently a form of violence, mostly to the tune of coercion toward car use as a primary directive.
Grim news from the Burnside Bridge design team about the costs of any connection to the esplanade from 55+ft above. The nine (9) southbound freeway lanes right next to that seem to be a complication in getting structure onto anything seismically sound. #noMoreFreeways#MarquamBridgeIsFallingDown#Portland#transportation#ODOTGTFOpdx
driving wild animals around for their migrations because we can't stop punching ourselves in the face with cars, is this a Portland thing? #NoMoreFreeways
No More Freeways, a grassroots and community-funded 501c(3) organization, is raising money to be matched to total roughly $30,000 by the end of 2023, but they're a couple thousand short of their $15,000 goal! Please donate by midnight to help end freeway expansion in the Portland metro area! Oregon desperately needs a transportation revolution.
"Opposition to the project was led by #NoMoreFreeways, a grassroots #Portland group fighting billions of dollars of #freewayWidening projects being pushed by ODOT. ...
ODOT’s proposed I-205 expansion was listed as one of the worst transportation projects in the country in USPIRG’s “Highway Boondoggles” report in 2022." 🎉 @cityobs 🥳
🚨 STOP ODOT’S BACKROOM HEIST, HELP US RIGHT-SIZE INTERSTATE BRIDGE INVESTMENT
The freeway lobbyists have included a $1 billion allocation of General Obligation Bond funds for the proposed Interstate Bridge Replacement in an amendment to House Bill 5005. This amendment dropped over the holiday weekend, a day before two work session votes on the legislation, the week before session ends. #ORleg#ORpol#NoMoreFreeways#ClimateAction#Portland#pdxBikes