Free news:Â Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) had great news for motorists when it announced Sept. 11 that all travel lanes in both directions of travel had opened on the McCord Creek Bridge, just west of Bonneville Dam.
Free news:Â Work begins Wednesday, Sept. 9, to clear debris from the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail east of the Eagle Creek Fish Hatchery.
As fires scorched through a record 2.5 million acres this summer, mostly in eastern and central Oregon, many of the state’s transportation maintenance crews traded patching potholes and cleaning culverts for wildfire response. Diverting resources to respond to severe weather events is becoming increasingly common for the Oregon Department of Transportation. But as the agency […]
The group tasked with developing recommendations on how to maintain Oregon’s transportation system wants to hear from Oregonians about what they think the state’s transportation priorities should be in a new survey. The Oregon Department of Transportation is facing a $200 million budget shortfall in the 2027-29 budget cycle. The gap marks the fifth budget […]
Oregon’s beleaguered transportation agency is staring down a $200 million budget gap for the 2027-29 budget cycle and layoffs unless the state Legislature intervenes, according to agency officials. The Oregon Department of Transportation’s budget gap largely stems from inflation and declining gas tax revenue as more people drive electric vehicles, and it means the agency […]
When Oregon lawmakers in 2013 passed a law establishing some of the state’s earliest guidelines for public drone usage, not a single state or local agency was using drones. The law prohibited the use of armed drones and restricted their use in law enforcement surveillance to cases involving a search warrant or life-threatening emergencies, such […]
Oregonians driving electric vehicles will be required to pay hundreds of dollars in new taxes and fees starting next year, sending tens of millions of dollars annually to the State Highway Fund. The fund is today mostly seeded with money from the state’s 40-cent-per-gallon gas tax and pays for Oregon roads and infrastructure. That revenue […]
In their first meeting since Oregon voters rejected a gas and payroll tax increase to pay for roads and transit services, Gov. Tina Kotek’s transportation workgroup seemed less focused on finding new funding mechanisms for the state’s beleaguered transportation agency than the agency’s perceived marketing failures. The 12 member workgroup first met in May and […]
Pedestrians returned to Mitchell Point Tunnel for the first time since it closed in 1953. The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) and O…
