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 ❌🛣️❌
can you imagine what three million dollars of investment in affordable housing would mean to oregon, instead of spending that money to expand a polluting freeway in the middle of a climate crisis?
No More Freeways@nomorefreewayspdx.com · yesterday"construction work on the highway caps and much of the new street infrastructure, which was initially slated to begin as early as next year, is being pushed back by two or four years due to the lack of funding."
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No More Freeways@nomorefreewayspdx.com · yesterday"construction work on the highway caps and much of the new street infrastructure, which was initially slated to begin as early as next year, is being pushed back by two or four years due to the lack of funding."
Build the caps over the current freeway (or fill in the freeway In our central city) and then let’s use all that money for other much more urgent transportation needs
The Oregonian@oregonian.com · yesterdayThe Portland project’s funding gap raises questions about whether it will proceed as planned. https://mrf.lu/2ZXPL
“Yet the state has secured just $480 million for the project, all of which has already been used or allocated for spending, resulting in a funding gap that may exceed $3 billion and raising questions about whether the project will proceed as planned.”
No More Freeways@nomorefreewayspdx.com · yesterday"construction work on the highway caps and much of the new street infrastructure, which was initially slated to begin as early as next year, is being pushed back by two or four years due to the lack of funding."
In two years it will be pushed back indefinitely and street improvements will never come, just as the safe streets advocates foretold.
No More Freeways@nomorefreewayspdx.com · yesterday"construction work on the highway caps and much of the new street infrastructure, which was initially slated to begin as early as next year, is being pushed back by two or four years due to the lack of funding."
"construction work on the highway caps and much of the new street infrastructure, which was initially slated to begin as early as next year, is being pushed back by two or four years due to the lack of funding."
Price tag of Portland’s Rose Quarter road project jumps past $3B as funding gap balloons, records show
The project’s funding gap raises questions about whether it will proceed as planned.
oregonlive.com
There is arguably no greater act of climate arson than building a giant parking garage at an airport served by a train station. ( looking at you Port of Portland )
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2d agoOne part of Trump's $22 billion makeover of Dulles that's been missed is his big, beautiful, world-record 32,000-spot parking garage. That's *way* more parking than recent estimates show the airport needs, and it would tower over the historic terminal: www.notus.org/metro/dulles...
A great day to remember +30% of Oregon's carbon pollution comes from transportation, yet ODOT, Governor Kotek + the legislature are defunding transit while advancing multiple multi-billion dollar freeway expansions that will only make Oregon's air pollution and carbon emissions even worse #orpol
Portland DSA@portlanddsa.bsky.social · 2d agoThe climate crisis is accelerating. We’ve got a Mayor + some city councilors running cover for Zenith Energy. We’ve got a state legislature captured by corporate $ facilitating a data center build out for these energy sucking monsters. Let’s get serious, shall we?
I loved making this zine and can't wait to do some more projects like this with @portlandneighborswelcome.org ! And thanks to everyone who's been sharing and enjoying it.😁 I'll have to share a digital version so folks who missed the ride can check it out too.
Fischer 🛠️🚇@fischer.bsky.social · last wk.shoutout to the goat @zachturc.bsky.social for making this beautiful document
remarkable how it's consensus within all realms of transportation academic/professional/political pundit spaces that transit projects cost too much and how rarely it's coupled with "we spend orders of magnitude more on highways which also suffer from exorbitant cost overruns and consultant grift"
Benjamin Schneider@benschneider.bsky.social · last wk.There's some truth here: Transit projects cost too much and the urban transportation market is getting more competitive. Withholding transit grant money, as the Trump admin is doing, addresses neither of those things, of course. But what would help? t.co/cZmiMFc6yf
Look at my national public transit lobbying group dawg my train is gonna derail
American Public Transportation Association@apta-info.bsky.social · 2w agoThe BUILD America 250 Act is a good first step, but Congress needs to maintain and build upon guaranteed funding. Greater investment is critically important to our public transit industry and generates enormous long-term economic returns for the nation. > www.apta.com/advocacy-mat...
The project on the left is completely through environmental review and is approved to move into construction and the project on the right needs more environmental analysis, everything is working great.
keep in mind that these transportation reauthorization bills dictate policy and funding at the federal level for the next 5-6 years at a minimum. so if the BUILD America 250 act passes, we’re stuck with it even if we elect a better congress this year and a better president in 2028.
Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · 3w agoThe US House is considering a transportation bill that would cut transit funding massively. We estimate that it would cut transit funds by 23% compared to the current infrastructure law. Every state would lose millions of dollars in transit formula funding. Details: www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...
"lawmakers remain well short of the full $13.5 to $15.2 billion needed to finish the entire corridor overhaul." - @typewriteralley.bsky.social
The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 3w agoNEW STORY// I-5 Expansion Over Columbia River Stumbles Forward with Federal Greenlight By Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org
tearing out urban freeways and replacing them with transit and housing
James Temple@jtemple.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat climate tech should make this year's 10 Breakthrough Technologies list? (Quick, I'm on an editorial brain storming call and have no ideas of my own! 🙏)
Instead of depriving a million Oregonians of medicine perhaps we could cut a single ODOT project.
OPB@opb.org · 4w agoMajor cuts are coming to the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s free healthcare program covering 1.4 million children and low-income adults. But the group of experts Gov. Tina Kotek charged with minimizing the harm of those cuts has given her no definitive recommendations.
as you can imagine, the "project 2025" plan for transportation is a climate, pollution, grifting, corruption disaster - substantially hamstringing transit programs and cutting safety investments to dump billiions into freeways. some dems are thinking of voting for it, and you can tell them not to:
No More Freeways@nomorefreewayspdx.com · 4w agoCongress is considering a very bad, very big pro-freeway expansion transportation bill; democrats are considering voting for it. Check out @americawalks.bsky.social's action alert to email congress and demand they stop the Build America 250 Act: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Congress is considering a very bad, very big pro-freeway expansion transportation bill; democrats are considering voting for it. Check out @americawalks.bsky.social's action alert to email congress and demand they stop the Build America 250 Act: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
2025 AW Transportation Reauthorization Toolkit
Transportation Reauthorization Bill Partner Toolkit June 2026 Overview: The BUILD America 250 Act Congress took a major step backward, advancing a transportation bill that doubles down on highways and...
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Our neighbors at @seattledot.bsky.social gave folks the option of reusing what’s currently car space as Parks ➕ Shoreline restoration ➕ 41 acres for 1000s of public homes. Surprising/not that this is the preferred public option. Makes you think? @nomorefreewayspdx.com @mayorkwilson.bsky.social
Olraca@olraca.bsky.social · last mo.A key finding indicates up to 100 acres of public space currently occupied by highway 99 could be reclaimed. The Reroute + Reclaim option would free up 59 acres for environmental and shoreline restoration, 41 acres for housing, parks, and industry, and leave 17 acres for streets.
The highway lobby makes a lot of money off of the American taxpayer. Those of us seeking better results for those taxpayers are often struggling to cobble together money to push back. @ucs.org blog.ucs.org/kshen/the-hi...
The Highway Lobby Spends Millions to Make Sure We Pay Billions
Our car-dependent transportation system is no accident.
blog.ucs.org
for anyone who thinks it’s science fiction to suggest that Seattle or Portland could function if we tore out I-5 or other massive highways, worth pointing them to our neighbor to the morth, an economically thriving and livable city with virtually no big roads Americans would recognize as “freeways”
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo agoAll those visiting Vancouver for the #WorldCup and cheering our public transit, walkable downtown, & vibrant waterfront, might be interested to know that almost everything noteworthy about our city-building began with the turning point rejection of the freeways that lobotomized so many other cities.
None other than @cityobservatory.bsky.social will be testifying tonight at Oregon's Joint Transportation Oversight Committee: olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025I1/D... #orleg #orpol
This has been such a long fight against a bloated, unless freeway expansion. Fitting that the trial is starting during our first and incredibly early heatwave of the summer
No More Freeways@nomorefreewayspdx.com · 2mo agoNext week, after years of litigation, we finally get our day in court. Thank you to the hundreds of you who have donated to our legal fund over the past decade.
Next week, after years of litigation, we finally get our day in court. Thank you to the hundreds of you who have donated to our legal fund over the past decade.
Chris Smith@chrissmith.us · 2mo agoNo More Freeways began filing lawsuits over the Rose Quarter project in 2019. After many ODOT withdrawals, re-filings and delays our day in court has arrived. Our first trial begins on Monday at 9am in room 14B of the Multnomah County Courthouse!
As usual, transit is on the chopping block despite this component being the least of the bridge’s issues You might consider the multiple interchanges being rebuilt miles into Washington, or widening the bridge despite evaluations traffic goes down once tolling is added #orleg #transit #highways
No More Freeways@nomorefreewayspdx.com · 2mo agoIt's not like the light rail component that was designed was truly exceptional, but it's notable that the transit component is what is on the chopping block and not any effort to rightsize the massive five mile freeway expansion with massive new interchanges
It's not like the light rail component that was designed was truly exceptional, but it's notable that the transit component is what is on the chopping block and not any effort to rightsize the massive five mile freeway expansion with massive new interchanges
‘Light rail to nowhere’? Surging costs undercut I-5 bridge transit plan
City officials in Vancouver are incensed that plans for bringing light rail service into town, near the local library, are getting put off indefinitely.
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Good morning! the Oregon Transportation Commission is taking public testimony now on the Interstate Bridge Replacement STIP Amendment ahead of their vote. Thank you to all 125+ of you who submitted written comment to the OTC this week! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qisu...
May 26, 2026 Special OTC Meeting
YouTube video by OregonDOT
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The worst part of the never-ending IBR debacle is it means we'll likely never see light rail or much needed improvements to ped/bike facilities on this bridge which is all we really need
No More Freeways@nomorefreewayspdx.com · 3mo agowake up babe, another "Nigel Jaquiss got his hands on internal IBR documents showing they're just making up numbers to justify massive grift, cost overruns and overbuilt freeway expansion" story just dropped
build homes not highways:
No More Freeways@nomorefreewayspdx.com · 3mo agoACTION ALERT: We need your help to tell the Oregon Transportation Commission to vote NO on the STIP Amendment for the $15 billion, oversized, polluting Interstate Bridge Replacement. Oregon simply cannot afford this reckless megaproject. Submit testimony today: nomorefreewayspdx.com/ibramendment
