Will Oregon Really TOLL EVERYONE Who Drives on I-5?
It's more than a little controversial to toll a road that people have used for free for 60 years. Let's uncover a quirk of Oregon's government — which may explain why tolling keeps popping up. Buy me tacos 😀🌮► / roadguyrob Ask a road question ► / roadguyrob ------------------------------ Additional reading: ------------------------------ "Oregon HB 2017" Bill Text, 79th Oregon Legislative Assembly https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/li... Letter from Gov. Tina Kotek to Oregon Transportation Commission re: Value Pricing, 11 Mar 2024 https://www.oregon.gov/odot/tolling/D... "I-205 Tolling Project Documents," Oregon Department of Transportation https://www.oregon.gov/odot/tolling/p... "I-205 Toll Project: Environmental Assessment," Oregon Department of Transportation, Feb 2023 https://www.oregon.gov/odot/tolling/D... "Federal Tolling Programs: Section 129," Federal Highway Administration https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/tolling_... "Oregon in Motion: The development and impacts of HB 2017," 1000 Friends of Oregon https://friends.org/sites/default/fil... "2023-2025 Agency Request Budget," Oregon Department of Transportation https://www.oregon.gov/odot/About/Bud... "Transportation Funding Needs," Oregon Department of Transportation https://www.oregon.gov/odot/About/Doc... "State of the System," Oregon Department of Transportation https://www.oregon.gov/odot/state-of-... "DundeeParkingLot.com," via Archive.org, 4 Sep 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/200609041... "History of the Oregon Toll Program," Oregon Department of Transportation https://www.oregon.gov/odot/tolling/P... "Regional Mobility Pricing Program," Oregon Department of Transportation https://www.oregon.gov/odot/tolling/P... "Specific Projects Funded by HB 2017," Oregon Department of Transportation https://www.oregon.gov/odot/projects/... "Vote Before Tolls," VoteBeforeTolls.org "Oregon Application to FHWA: Value Pricing Feasibility Analysis and Proposed Implementation," Oregon Department of Transportation, 2018 https://www.oregon.gov/odot/tolling/R... "I-205 Toll Project Environmental Assessment Video Series" • Video "I-205 Toll Project 2023 Environmental Assessment," Oregon Department of Transportation https://www.oregon.gov/odot/tolling/p... "Environmental Assessment Public Engagement Activity and Comment Summary," Urban Mobility Strategy, Oregon Department of Transportation https://www.oregon.gov/odot/tolling/D... "Revised Project Description and Purpose and Need," Urban Mobility Strategy, Oregon Department of Transportation, Nov 2023 https://www.oregon.gov/odot/tolling/D... Letter from Rep. Lori Chavez-Deremer to FHWA, 1 Jun 2023 https://chavez-deremer.house.gov/site... ------------------------- Time sections: ------------------------- Yamhillland (0:00) Abernathy Bridge (3:05) Paying for Roads (4:48) Value Pricing (7:01) Traffic Diversion (10:19) Losing Federal Aid (13:22) I Feel Bad for ODOT (15:07)
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