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The Oregon Clean Vehicle Rebate program has since 2018 provided rebates on the purchase of more than 42,500 zero and low emission vehicles.
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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 […]
A crowd of commuters walking toward the platforms, with the train timetable above at Waterloo Station. Image Credit: Shutterstock/I Wei Huang
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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 […]
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The transportation group charged with vetting and recommending ideas to solve the state’s $200 million 2027-29 budget gap spent its fourth meeting examining how other states fund their transportation systems. Appointed by Gov. Tina Kotek, the 12-member “Rebuilding our Transportation Vision” workgroup has until the end of the year to deliver funding recommendations to Kotek, […]
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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 […]
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Abdul Saboor Hassan moved to Oregon in 2020 after qualifying for a green card for his service to the U.S. Army in his home country, Afghanistan. He became a commercial truck driver for a short period of time before becoming a commercial driving instructor, an experience that motivated him to open his own commercial driving […]
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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 […]
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SALEM — Bipartisanship and earlier deliberations over transportation funding are a priority in the 2027 legislative session, a mostly Democratic group of lawmakers told the business and transportation experts tasked with vetting and recommending ideas to solve the Oregon Department of Transportation’s impending funding shortfall. For a third year in a row, lawmakers in January […]
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In 1955, 15 cents could buy a McDonald’s hamburger or pay the tax for 15 gallons of jet fuel. More than 70 years later, hamburgers cost several dollars but the tax rate the state’s aviation agency counts on hasn’t changed. Oregon Department of Aviation Director Kenji Sugahara shared that comparison with lawmakers on the interim […]
