The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is asking to raise gas taxes 6 cents a gallon, and increase other fees, supposedly to cover shortfalls in maintenance and operations. But nothing in the proposed legislation submitted| City Observatory
HB 2025 doesn’t fix the Oregon Department of Transportation’s financial problem—it makes it even bigger| City Observatory
Every time Oregonians are asked to pony up more money for roads, ODOT trots out a report saying that they’re definitely going to improve their management and stop blowing through budgets. And they’re doing it again. In 2025, as Yogi Berra would say, “It’s deja vu all over again.”| City Observatory