"crews worked tirelessly overnight to ensure the roads were clean for this morning's rush hour" -- fucking where? I just took I70 all the way across town and back and neither direction had any salt or any indication of being plowed. And I didn't see a single plow anywhere either. #odot#fail
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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 💸
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I'm not trying to vilify all #drivers here, just the ones with illegal license plate covers or missing front plate or who roll past the stop sign and half into the bike lane before looking, or those who are driving 5-10mph over the already egregious posted speed, or the ones who park in bike lanes and on sidewalks and honk too much and impatiently ride my tail while there's a fresh red light in front of me or those assholes who drive in the curb lane of an ODOT stroad when the left lane is open.
@Bman ONE WOULD THINK SO, but you're talking about an "orphan state highway" where people in #Portland are being killed with #pdxTraffic, by #ODOT#trafficEngineers (who just spent $3M in "safety money" reconfiguring an onramp about a mile back rather than a #BusLaneRoadDiet from downtown to Tigard) #BarburBlvd
When #ODOT spent $3M (of "All Roads Lead to Safety if you're in a car, but still obivously not really because we kill a lot of [#drivers]" money) to make an on-ramp traffic swirley around a grocery store, they chose to prioritize vehicle volumes and speeds over safety. The similar-looking mile of Cap Hwy south of here was, just a few years prior, reallocated with quick-build materials at a cost of $250k/mile. It's about 8 miles to downtown #Portland. Somebody please help us with this math 🥴
"Regular reminder that #GovTinaKotek doesn't care how many people #ODOT kills with their "orphan" (bastard) surface highways while they're busy trying to sire more lanes of freeway on the backs of future taxpayers."