Sunday, January 12, 2020

How you gonna pay for #freepublictransit?

Trolls keep asking who's gonna pay for free public transit, while we keep throwing good money after bad on more highways. Rose Quarter now up to $795 million for less than two miles of widening. How many free buses would that pay for?
In light of the Governor’s letter, No More Freeways continues to demand that ODOT conduct a rigorous Environmental Impact Statement that could clarify whether ODOT is telling the truth in their claims that the Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion would somehow be the first in America that reduced traffic congestion, lowered carbon emissions or improved air pollution. Our independent analysis of ODOT’s traffic projections revealed numerous, easily-challenged assumptions and discrepancies with significant implications to the project’s public health and climate considerations. The public deserves nothing short of full accountability, transparency and honest assessment of these impacts for a proposed half billion dollar investment in fossil-fuel infrastructure on the dawn of our hastily arriving climate emergency.
https://nomorefreewayspdx.com/2020/01/07/800-million-frickin-dollars/ 

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