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HB 2025: Fiscally irresponsible, feeding the megaproject machine – City Observatory

Salem, Oregon · Salem

HB 2025: Fiscally irresponsible, feeding the megaproject machine – City Observatory

It doesn’t add up: You can’t be accountable, unless you actually do “accounting.” HB 2025, the “transportation package” in the Oregon Legislature purports to address ODOT’s massive financial problem, but only makes them worse The bill provides only a fraction of the money needed to actually pay for promised mega-projects. HB 2025 provides just $1.75 to $1.95 billion in resources for five listed projects that together need about $3.5 billion–an…Read Article

The ODOT accountability charade – City Observatory

Portland, Oregon · Portland

The ODOT accountability charade – 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.” There’s a multi-billion dollar transportation bill hanging fire in the Legislature. ODOT’s managerial blunders and massive cost-overruns (quite logically) raise majo…Read Article

The elephant in Hearing Room A – City Observatory

Salem, Oregon · Salem

The elephant in Hearing Room A – City Observatory

Why does Oregon’s massive new highway bill make no provision for the rising cost of the state’s most expensive highway project? Why are officials continuing to delay release of new, higher cost estimates that they’ve been promising for the past year and half? There’s a $9 billion elephant in the Oregon State Capitol’s Hearing Room A, where the Joint Transportation Committee meets twice a week. Legislators are trying to work out a multi-billion …Read Article

Another Delay for Higher IBR Costs

Joe Cortright warns that repeated postponements in releasing the Interstate Bridge Replacement cost estimate foreshadow a final price exceeding $9 billion and place Oregon and Washington taxpayers at risk.Oregon, United States · Oregon See the Story

The Week Observed, May 30, 2025 – City Observatory

What City Observatory Did This Week Still Unaccountable: Oregon’s highway department has a cost overrun problem, so naturally they hired consultants to fix it. The twist? Those same consultants have their own impressive track record of blowing budgets and breaking rules. The new “roadmap for accountability” comes courtesy of AtkinsRéalis-Horrocks, whose principals Shane Marshall and Joshua Laipply recently departed Utah and Colorado DOTs (resp…Portland, Oregon · Portland Read Article

Still Unaccountable: The AtkinsRealis-Horrocks Report – City Observatory

A new report purports to provide a roadmap for accountability at the Oregon Department of Transportation. In short, its a work of conflicted consultants, with a long history of cost overruns and excessive spending, offering slightly recycled versions of measures that have failed to control costs for the past decade. Oregon’s highway department has a problem with chronic cost overruns. The report from AtkinsRéalis-Horrocks purports to address t…Portland, Oregon · Portland Read Article

The Week Observed, May 23, 2025 – City Observatory

What City Observatory Did This Week Unaccountable. 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% of projects are completed under budget. ODOT is careful to define overruns only …Portland, Oregon · Portland Read Article

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

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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…Software See the Story

Joe Cortright’s testimony on Oregon stadium tax subsidies (SB 110A) – City Observatory

Baseball stadium proponents are arguing a “jock tax” would be free money to pay for a stadium That’s based on an illusion about where the money to pay baseball players income comes from The economic evidence is that sports venues just re-allocate money in the local economy Diverting Oregon income taxes to subsidize stadium construction subsidizes billionaire owners and millionaire players at the cost of other public services. On May 15, 2025, …Oregon, United States · Oregon Read Article

The Week Observed, May 16, 2025 – City Observatory

What City Observatory Did This Week Seattle just put the finishing touches on a new 2.7 mile subway connecting some of its hottest neighborhoods: unfortunately, its only built to carry stormwater runoff, not people, even though its big enough to accommodate a train. This new stormwater subway is needed, largely because of runoff and pollution from roads that is properly attributed to cars and trucks, yet homeowners, renters and businesses in …Seattle · Seattle Read Article

Cortright Testimony to Oregon Transportation Commission, May 8, 2025 – City Observatory

Joe Cortright, City Observatory Testimony to the Oregon Transportation Commission May 8, 2025 Thank you for the opportunity to testify. I’m Joe Cortright with City Observatory. As you remember I testified six weeks ago, when I pointed out that faced with cost overruns, what this commission has done is frown, shrug, and then give the same people more money to do more of the same. And I noted that you get the behavior that you reward, and what you…Portland, Oregon · Portland Read Article

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