Portland Transport

Category: Transportation Funding

  • Tiger II grant winners in Oregon and SW Washington.

    The USDOT has just announced the winners of the Tiger II Discretionary Grant program; and four projects in Oregon and SW Washington will receive funding.

  • Oregonian opposes TriMet bond measure 26-119

    In this morning’s Oregonian, the editorial board came out against Measure 26-119, the TriMet sponsored bond measure which would continue the soon-to-expire Westside MAX bonds, in order to pay for numerous enhancements to the bus system, particularly to help out the disabled.

  • TIGER II Oversubscription Extends Trend

    Via Planetizen: There are $19B in applications for the $600M in available TIGER ( Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) II funding. This follows the trend established by TIGER I, which had $60B in applications for $1.5B in funding. Clearly there is an appetite for alternative transportation projects out there in the country. Let’s hope the…

  • ODOT Has $21M in Flexible Funds Available

    Convince your City or County to apply for a good project: The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is pleased to announce the availability of $21 million in federal transportation funds for the Fall 2010 application cycle for the newly created Flexible Funds Program. The Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC) has directed that these funds be made…

  • Should Portland Help Pay for Sellwood?

    Mayor Adams is being accused of dragging his feet on the City’s contribution to the Sellwood Bridge replacement. But let’s step back a bit. Is it the best use of $8M/year of the City’s share of increased gas tax revenues to fund a County facility (we’ll leave aside the question of whether having the County…