Report: Oregon Department of Transportation Plagued by Delays, Staff Turnover, Cost Overruns

Report: Oregon Department of Transportation plagued by delays, staff turnover, cost overruns

The Oregon Department of Transportation is beset by high staff turnover, decades-old financial software, cost overruns and delays that have eroded trust with elected leaders. That’s according to a review of the department’s projects and organizational structure hitting the desks of lawmakers on the Joint Committee on Transportation Reinvestment this week. The committee is weighing how best to fund ODOT, potentially with new taxes and fees, as th…

Unaccountable: ODOT covers up cost overruns – City Observatory

The Oregon Department of Transportation is unaccountable for routine cost overruns on major highway projects.  Nothing it has done has acknowledged or solved this decades old problem, and giving it billions more will fuel further cost overruns. ODOT’s Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) misleadingly claim that 97 percent of projects are completed under budget. ODOT is careful to define overruns only as costs after contracts are awarded:  this con…