Category: Roads

  • PDOT Gets Tagged for Lack of Subcontracting

    Yesterday’s O includes an article indicating that PDOT has violated statutes for putting re-paving projects out to bid (possibly making it a net-neutral PR day for PDOT, they also got named best employer by the Women in Transportation Seminar, as noted in the Daily Journal of Commerce). This peaked my interest, because I’m currently reading…

  • The Other Tollbooth Drops

    In Sunday’s Oregonian, Jim Mayer reports that a study of the tolling options for building the Newberg Dundee bypass concludes that the most efficient revenue model would require tolling BOTH the new bypass and the existing route on 99W.

  • I-5 to 99W Connector Project Steering Committee studies ways to improve traffic movement in the area

    Excerpted from Rex’s April newsletter: Regional and local transportation officials have recognized the need for a connection between I-5 and Hwy. 99W for more than a decade. Traffic demand in the southwestern portion of the region has grown substantially, leading to increasingly congested conditions. Metro Councilor Carl Hosticka serves on the I 5 to 99W…