The study was sponsored by West Linn, Oregon City, Tualatin, and Wilsonville by: Michaela Bourgeois KOIN News — Feb 26, 2024 PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – After Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek postponed the Oregon Department of Transportation’s proposed tolling program until 2026 after receiving negative public feedback, a new survey found that a majority of Oregon voters...
The current threat tolling brings to freedom of movement in Oregon Kevin Hoar, Dean Suhr and John Ley engage in a 73 minute discussion about tolling in Oregon. You’ll hear about how the Columbia River Crossing (CRC) brought the possibility of tolling to the Portland metro area. When the CRC “failed”, politicians worked behind the...
Expanding unpopular tolls to fund multi billion dollar westside transportation projects By Holly Bartholomew West Linn Tidings, Dec 21, 2023 Updated Feb 2, 2024 While Oregon’s discussions on freeway tolling in recent years have focused almost entirely on I-205 and I-5 in the Portland area — a prospect that is not popular, particularly with Clackamas County residents...
Tolling is beginning to look like a money grab By Cam Gilmour Portland Tribune Jan 16, 2024 On Dec. 14 and Jan. 6 the Oregon Legislature’s special committee on transportation planning held meetings in Wilsonville and Gladstone to hear from the public and local elected officials on tolling. What the committee heard from testimony is no one wants tolls....
By Martha Schrader Jan. 12, 2024 Portland Tribune Clackamas County residents and elected officials on Jan. 6 drove their message home about the negative impacts of ODOT’s proposed I-205 tolling plan at the listening session in Gladstone hosted by our legislature’s Special Subcommittee on Transportation Planning. In two hours of impassioned testimony, we...
Clackamas County Commission is supporting Initiative Petition 4 By Raymond Rendleman Jan 6, 2024 Canby Herald Do you oppose the “unending bureaucratic extortion” that state officials propose through tolling freeways in Oregon? Asked the question by an angry citizen, scores in the audience raised their hands to protest ODOT’s push for tolling during a...
‘Twas the night before Christmas as told by Vote Before Tolls Committee ’Twas the night before Christmas, and all though the landODOT was scheming, with a toll plan so grand;The Interstates and highways were not to be spared,nor new bridges of grandeur, lest ODOT’s coffers be bare; The ’17 legislature met and set up a...
Chavez-DeRemer says the tolling projects should be rejected KOIN 6 News — Oct 18, 2023 by: Michaela Bourgeois PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) is calling for a review of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 tolling plans amid concerns over how the projects are being implemented. Following a...
Political leaders and residents of West Linn are frustrated by a recent ODOT survey, which they said didn’t allow them to express discontentment over future tolls. By Author: Thomas Shults at KGW News Published: September 29, 2023 WEST LINN, Ore. — West Linn residents are frustrated over a recent survey from the Oregon Department of Transportation...
Truckers supported HB 2017 because it added freeway lanes, now eliminated Monday, September 25, 2023 By John Ley for Clark County Today There was a lot of “truth telling” by the elected representatives of small cities along I-205 at the Tualatin Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting Friday morning. The chamber hosted a gathering of key...
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