No More Freeways
@nomorefreewayspdx.com
We’re the grassroots community effort to stop ODOT’s polluting, costly, dumb freeway expansions.
Climate leaders don’t widen freeways ❌🛣️❌
Climate leaders don’t widen freeways ❌🛣️❌
We wish the massive ODOT shake up / project reassessment was primarily because we convinced legislators about the need for reform, instead of massive federal funding cuts and state legislative inertia.
But It's still welcome news, and a huge opportunity for change.
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
But It's still welcome news, and a huge opportunity for change.
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
www.koin.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
We wish the massive ODOT shake up / project reassessment was primarily because we convinced legislators about the need for reform, instead of massive federal funding cuts and state legislative inertia.
But It's still welcome news, and a huge opportunity for change.
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
But It's still welcome news, and a huge opportunity for change.
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
"Now Governor Kotek has an opportunity to heal her wounded transportation legacy by picking an ODOT director that is humble enough to change the status quo and courageous enough to create a new one."
"Maybe the OTC and Oregon lawmakers will wake up and take our state's approach to transportation in a very different direction — one that stops chasing freeway expansion megaprojects as a solution to climate change (which is what Strickler believed them to be)..."
bikeportland.org/2025/11/13/o...
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ODOT turmoil continues as director signals his exit
Maybe Strickler just got tired of not winning.
bikeportland.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"Now Governor Kotek has an opportunity to heal her wounded transportation legacy by picking an ODOT director that is humble enough to change the status quo and courageous enough to create a new one."
Good morning from the Oregon Transportation Commission!
The gang's all here once again in public testimony - @1000oregon.bsky.social's @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social, Verde's @indinmkng.bsky.social, @cityobservatory.bsky.social, @chrissmith.us + @aortarail.org's Doug Allen all speaking
The gang's all here once again in public testimony - @1000oregon.bsky.social's @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social, Verde's @indinmkng.bsky.social, @cityobservatory.bsky.social, @chrissmith.us + @aortarail.org's Doug Allen all speaking
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Good morning from the Oregon Transportation Commission!
The gang's all here once again in public testimony - @1000oregon.bsky.social's @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social, Verde's @indinmkng.bsky.social, @cityobservatory.bsky.social, @chrissmith.us + @aortarail.org's Doug Allen all speaking
The gang's all here once again in public testimony - @1000oregon.bsky.social's @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social, Verde's @indinmkng.bsky.social, @cityobservatory.bsky.social, @chrissmith.us + @aortarail.org's Doug Allen all speaking
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New Post: Katie Wilson is Seattle’s Next Mayor seattletransitblog.com/2025/11/13/k...
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New Post: Katie Wilson is Seattle’s Next Mayor seattletransitblog.com/2025/11/13/k...
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Hearing that ODOT Director Kris Strickler is stepping down effective Jan 2. (!!).
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Hearing that ODOT Director Kris Strickler is stepping down effective Jan 2. (!!).
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An enormous waste of taxpayer dollars to fund car infrastructure and auto-dependency
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
An enormous waste of taxpayer dollars to fund car infrastructure and auto-dependency
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I-94 through Mpls-StPaul is such a disaster. I've lost friends over my position that it should be removed and replaced with better transportation, housing, business and recreation options. It inflicts unrelenting ugliness and tragedy on our communities. Do we intend to remain car-dependent victims?
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I-94 through Mpls-StPaul is such a disaster. I've lost friends over my position that it should be removed and replaced with better transportation, housing, business and recreation options. It inflicts unrelenting ugliness and tragedy on our communities. Do we intend to remain car-dependent victims?
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This is tomorrow! Come hang out with Doug and Sarah at Bike Happy Hour Weds 11/12 Migration Brewing on N Williams Ave. They'll sit down w me at 5:30 for a convo followed by some Q & A. Show up earlier than that to hang with them! See you there!
This dynamic duo is on a national media tour talking up their excellent new book that diagnoses, dissects, and debates how car-dominated places have negatively influenced our lives — and what we'd gain by living life without (or a lot fewer of) them.
bikeportland.org/2025/11/06/w...
bikeportland.org/2025/11/06/w...
'War on Cars' podcast hosts at Bike Happy Hour on Wednesday
It's the perfect time to talk about ideas that once felt radical, but now feel inevitable.
bikeportland.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This is tomorrow! Come hang out with Doug and Sarah at Bike Happy Hour Weds 11/12 Migration Brewing on N Williams Ave. They'll sit down w me at 5:30 for a convo followed by some Q & A. Show up earlier than that to hang with them! See you there!
ODOT & WSDOT have committed a little over $320 million so far on planning for the Interstate Bridge Replacement. #orleg #orpol #walege
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Opinion: Outrageous 32% WSP profits for IBR consulting - ClarkCountyToday.com
Rep. John Ley criticizes WSP’s 32 percent profit on the IBR consulting contract, which has ballooned from $44 million to $293.5 million through multiple amendments and “extra work.”
www.clarkcountytoday.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
ODOT & WSDOT have committed a little over $320 million so far on planning for the Interstate Bridge Replacement. #orleg #orpol #walege
www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opin...
www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opin...
Having one of ODOT's five bosses vote "no" and request a delay on a project of this scale — one that has vast bureaucratic inertia behind it — is unheard of.
bikeportland.org/2025/10/30/n...
bikeportland.org/2025/10/30/n...
'No' vote an ominous first for Interstate Bridge project
While it was just a procedural step, Commissioner Jeff Baker was not having it.
bikeportland.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
full implementation would almost certainly cost less than the hundreds of millions we’ve spent just planning the rose quarter freeway expansion, let alone the ibr.
looking at the full rose lane vision map and thinking: damn www.portland.gov/transportati...
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
full implementation would almost certainly cost less than the hundreds of millions we’ve spent just planning the rose quarter freeway expansion, let alone the ibr.
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ODOT is hiring. Do you know anyone, @nomorefreewayspdx.com? oregon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SOR_Ex...
Rose Quarter Program Director
Initial Posting Date: 10/27/2025 Application Deadline: 11/17/2025 Agency: Department of Transportation Salary Range: $10,589 - $16,379 Position Type: Employee Position Title: Rose Quarter Program Dire...
oregon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
ODOT is hiring. Do you know anyone, @nomorefreewayspdx.com? oregon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SOR_Ex...
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Fun panel!
Packed house for the @opb.org / @wgbh.org live taping of the cross over Big Dig / Stop Requested podcast! NMF co-founder @chrissmith.us is on tonight’s panel
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Fun panel!
well this looks awesome
“From the 1950s to the 1970s, federal contractors building the system deliberately mapped routes that rammed through and dismantled Black neighborhoods — payback, some say, for gains made during the Civil Rights Movement.”
Why Do Highways Run Through Black Neighborhoods?
The documentary “Interstate” exposes how highway routes are by design.
wordinblack.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
well this looks awesome
NMF co-founder Joe Cortright @cityobservatory.bsky.social spoke to KGW about the latest updates on the Interstate Bridge Replacement - turns out the project is not doing so hot!
Where’s the accountability from the Oregon legislature and the Governor?
#orpol #orleg
Where’s the accountability from the Oregon legislature and the Governor?
#orpol #orleg
October 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
NMF co-founder Joe Cortright @cityobservatory.bsky.social spoke to KGW about the latest updates on the Interstate Bridge Replacement - turns out the project is not doing so hot!
Where’s the accountability from the Oregon legislature and the Governor?
#orpol #orleg
Where’s the accountability from the Oregon legislature and the Governor?
#orpol #orleg
The revolving door between highway consultants and agencies is truly maddening
Greg Johnson had a massive conflict of interest. He was a WSP Senior VP. Hired as the IBR Administrator he managed a $76 million contract with WSP.
October 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The revolving door between highway consultants and agencies is truly maddening
ODOT’s lost their director for the Rose Quarter, twice lost the director of the Urban Mobility Office in the last year, and now lost the director of the IBR.
#orpol #orleg
#orpol #orleg
IBR is losing its leader, Greg Johnson, at a very bad time: It is two years behind schedule, late on producing a new cost estimate that will push its price to almost $10 billion, is unlikely to get Coast Guard approval, and may lose $2 billion in federal grants. cityobservatory.org/ibr-johnson_...
IBR’s problems are much deeper than its leadership – City Observatory
cityobservatory.org
October 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
October 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
spending billions to widen a freeway to an airport is a particularly egregious way to spend public infrastructure money to burn the planet down. kudos to @awalkerinla.bsky.social for this run down on the LAX-pressway www.torched.la/air-traffic-...
Air traffic control
The LAX-pressway must be stopped
www.torched.la
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
spending billions to widen a freeway to an airport is a particularly egregious way to spend public infrastructure money to burn the planet down. kudos to @awalkerinla.bsky.social for this run down on the LAX-pressway www.torched.la/air-traffic-...
Meanwhile, ODOT and regional policymakers and the Oregon Legislature continue to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars towards proposed freeway expansions that are also getting defunded instead of filling budget holes to replace bridges that’ll otherwise fall in the river when The Big One comes
The construction of a new Burnside Bridge that can withstand a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake is being delayed again due to uncertain federal funding.
Construction delayed again on earthquake-ready Burnside Bridge in Portland
The construction of a new, earthquake-ready Burnside Bridge has been delayed — again — due to uncertain federal funding. Multnomah County is still moving forward with the design phase.
www.opb.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Meanwhile, ODOT and regional policymakers and the Oregon Legislature continue to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars towards proposed freeway expansions that are also getting defunded instead of filling budget holes to replace bridges that’ll otherwise fall in the river when The Big One comes
"The Interstate “bridge replacement” gets marketed primarily as a project to serve cyclists and pedestrians. But its really about widening five miles of freeway, ostensibly to move 180,000 cars a day, something you’d never know by looking at project renderings."
#orleg #orpol #walege #pdx
#orleg #orpol #walege #pdx
Greenwashing the Interstate Bridge Project
https://cityobservatory.org/greenwashing-the-interstate-bridge-project/
https://cityobservatory.org/greenwashing-the-interstate-bridge-project/
October 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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We'll be there.
Save the date! We're so excited about this upcoming livetaping of @opb.org's Stop Requested series, coming up on Tuesday October 28:
literary-arts.org/event/opb-th...
literary-arts.org/event/opb-th...
The Big Dig x OPB’s Stop Requested LIVE: a conversation about what to do with Portland’s highways
Every American city is divided by crumbling old highways. Every city is trying to figure out what to do with them. Join Ian Coss, host of the Peabody-Award winning podcast
literary-arts.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
We'll be there.
Save the date! We're so excited about this upcoming livetaping of @opb.org's Stop Requested series, coming up on Tuesday October 28:
literary-arts.org/event/opb-th...
literary-arts.org/event/opb-th...
The Big Dig x OPB’s Stop Requested LIVE: a conversation about what to do with Portland’s highways
Every American city is divided by crumbling old highways. Every city is trying to figure out what to do with them. Join Ian Coss, host of the Peabody-Award winning podcast
literary-arts.org
October 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Save the date! We're so excited about this upcoming livetaping of @opb.org's Stop Requested series, coming up on Tuesday October 28:
literary-arts.org/event/opb-th...
literary-arts.org/event/opb-th...