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Sections of almost every Oregon highway need maintenance, but waiting probably won’t cause a catastrophic failure. The pavement will get rougher and the projects will take longer when the Oregon ...
Cornelius Pass Road will close for chip sealing from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Aug. 5-6, with local access to NW Skyline Blvd.
Lawmakers will reconvene in August to try to avoid mass layoffs at transportation agencies. As wildfires sweep the state, the ...
The impact of any layoffs is uncertain, for now, because of union contracts that enable employees to move into other ...
Gov. Kotel called a special legislative session in late August to address the budget gap at the state transportation ...
Oregon simply does not have the revenue tools to adequately fund transportation needs, writes Rep. Susan McLain, who ...
By calling a special session to raise taxes for transportation, Gov. Tina Kotek is passing up another solution that would ...
Commuters plan ahead, because the Oregon Department of Transportation is closing a section of Highway 217 overnight.
Portland’s NAACP president said the project is a chance to “reconcile some of the historical harms that this state has done.” ...
The approved work is considered mostly deferred maintenance, including stormwater and bridge deck improvements necessary for the rest of the project.
• The payroll tax to pay for transit would double from 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent. Kotek said the increase is necessary to ...
With I-5 and I-205 tolling proposals still advancing, supporters of the Vote Before Tolls initiative say Oregon voters ...