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We’re the grassroots community effort to stop ODOT’s polluting, costly, dumb freeway expansions. Climate leaders don’t widen freeways ❌🛣️❌

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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 29/09/2026
Probably a good time to cut statewide transit funding and spend billions on freeways #orleg #orpol
theguardian.com
Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast
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OpaqueReptile @possumpat.io · 21/09/2026
Did you know if you build fewer/smaller highways you have to spend less on maintenance? Crazy I know. I will never understand why we pour billions into the most space and cost inefficient transportation option, saddling us with massive future maintenance debt, while public transit gets crumbs.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 21/09/2026
Oregon's roads are in *terrible* shape - among the worst in the country! - and yet Governor Kotek, the Oregon Legislature and ODOT are still thinking about spending *billions* on a single hwy project to double the width of I-5 instead of maintaining our state's existing roads and bridges. enough!
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Oregon has one of the nation’s largest funding gaps to meet road maintenance needs • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The Beaver State has the second highest gap-to-expenditure ratio in the country, behind New York and tied with Connecticut.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 19/09/2026
Don't want to spend your life stuck in traffic congestion? Turns out, the best way to prevent traffic congestion is to stop building billions of dollars of miles of freeway and instead invest in transit.
This matters because this is an important lesson, a potential teachable moment for all of us, about how the transportation system works.  Expanding highways in urban areas results in what is called “induced travel”–the greater supply of road capacity prompts people to take more and longer trips than they would otherwise.  That’s why widening roads to solve congestion never works–roads, no matter how wide, fill up and become congested, like Houston’s 23-lane wide Katy Freeway which actually is slower after its most recent expansion than it was before.  This is what economists now call the “fundamental law of road congestion.”  And this fundamental law also works in reverse:  take away some of the capacity, and as everyone of these supposed Carmaggedon’s shows, traffic evaporates.  Once we understand that traffic responds to supply, we can recognize we can limit traffic by not building so much capacity.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 19/09/2026
Cannot wait for 2029 when President Ocasio-Cortez signs an infrastructure bill that dedicates $100 billion to reviving the Reconnecting Communities program, with stipulations it can only be used on projects that actively tear down urban freeways and replace them with parks, transit social housing
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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰 @bradleyclover.com · 19/09/2026
There are like 5 open positions on the Portland Plannign commision, and over the next year its gonna be doing some of its most important work ever. You need to apply 🫵 (I would myself, but I'm in school) You have the weekend before applications close. www.portland.gov/bps/planning...
portland.gov
Planning Commission seeks candidates for open positions - deadline extended
The City of Portland is seeking members to serve on an advisory body responsible for long-range city planning. The deadline to apply has been extended to Monday, Sept. 21.
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amb @amb.fyi · 19/09/2026
eliminating I-5 for a week seems to have caused remarkably minimal disruption to Portland's regional traffic flows. so why again do ODOT, Governor Kotek and the Oregon Legislature think we should spend three billion dollars (!) to literally double the width of lanes on I-5 through North Portland?
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AORTA Transit @aortarail.org · 19/09/2026
Want to preview a brand new Airo train? Sign up for a public tour!
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 18/09/2026
there's no way this isn't a better investment that spending billions to widen urban freeways in the name of congestion mitigation
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m really excited for the release of @transitcenter.bsky.social Narrative Change project, and proud that Ruth Rosas from Nondrivers Alliance was part of the cohort that helped develop this work. Most of all, it’s really affirming to see the dignity and fairness frame as the top performing message.
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Marnie Glickman @marniemix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm just loving the lack of Carmageddon. #nomorefreeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com ❤️❤️❤️
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 18/09/2026
City Observatory continues to keep up with the "carmageddon" beat - turns out, shutting down I-5 doesn't seem to be having hardly *any* impact on traffic congestion across the region. Why again does the Oregon Legislature want to spend over $3 billion to double the width of the RQ freeway? #orleg
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 15/09/2026
We get the traffic congestion that we plan for. So why is Oregon spending tens of billions of dollars to add multiple miles of new lanes of freeway through the Rose Quarter and across the Columbia River? Every mile we build just ends up in more motorists polluting, stuck in gridlock.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 14/09/2026
funny how traffic just evaporates when freeways are shut down
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City Observatory @cityobservatory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Zoom-Zoom: Live traffic cameras run by KATU set to show "MONDAY GRIDLOCK" actually show traffic moving smoothly on I-5. (11:25AM, 14 Sept). Where's my carmaggedon? katu.com/news/survive...
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
$14B carbon bomb subsidy to help people evade sales taxes. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
nextcity.org
Can Light Rail Survive Vancouver, Washington’s New Bridge?
The cost to replace the aging I-5 span between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, has grown past $14 billion. But plans for the bridge’s transit line are only shrinking.
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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The first three Amtrak Cascades Airo trainsets will enter revenue service Sept. 30! www.kgw.com/article/news...
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 08/09/2026
who wants to be the next director of ODOT?
oregon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
Oregon Department of Transportation Director
Initial Posting Date: 09/04/2026 Application Deadline: 11/09/2026 Agency: Department of Transportation Salary Range: $15,834 - $24,553 Position Type: Employee Position Title: Oregon Department of Tran...
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amb @amb.fyi · 07/09/2026
Most state DOTs:
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 03/09/2026
Meanwhile the Oregon Legislature is gearing up write a check for over two billion dollars to double the width of I-5 in the backyard of Harriet Tubman Moddle School, clogging the neighborhood with noise and air pollution.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 31/08/2026
Helluva time for the Oregon Legislature to defund public transit and continue to write checks for multibillion dollar freeway expansions! Quite an ~affordability agenda~ going on over here
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Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org · 26/08/2026
You're invited to our Annual Member Celebration on Saturday, September 26th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM at White Owl Social Club! Enjoy food and drinks as we celebrate our accomplishments, recognize outstanding volunteers, and connect with fellow members. RSVP here: portlandneighborswelcome.org/events
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 22/08/2026
The cuts to bus service will get worse without bold leadership from the Oregon Legislature next session. Will we restore and expand public transit? Or will we continue to give billions of dollars to ODOT for their costly, polluting freeway expansions? www.wweek.com/news/2026/08...
wweek.com
‘Historic’ Service Cuts Are Now Arriving for TriMet Riders
The service reductions were first announced in January, as a state transportation funding package crumbled in the face of a Republican-led grassroots revolt.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 21/08/2026
Trains! Not Lanes or Planes:
thenewstribune.com
Maybe we shouldn’t expand airports. Trains would serve WA better | Opinion
But transportation policy is often deadly health policy, because burning fossil fuel produces microscopic PM 2.5 particles. | Opinion
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 20/08/2026
securing funding to maintain/improve/expand amtrak cascades service (instead of just letting odot spend all our money on the rose quarter freeway expansion) is just one of many, many fights we're going to have to have in the oregon legislative session for the transportation package next year
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Anastasia Mason @anastasiacmason.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A look back at some of what was going on during transportation funding redirection conversations earlier this year: Why nearly $56M from ODOT wasn't used to balance budget | Exclusive www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/p... #orpol #orleg
statesmanjournal.com
Why nearly $56M from ODOT wasn't used to balance budget | Exclusive
Information about nearly $56 million in funding that could have been used to balance ODOT's budget in the 2026 session was not shared with lawmakers.
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Dirk VanderHart @dirquez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Oregon Legislature tapped a firm to audit ODOT that also gets $$ from contracts with ODOT -- and no one seems to see anything wrong with that. Great story from @anastasiacmason.bsky.social. #orleg #orpol www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/p...
statesmanjournal.com
Firm won $1M ODOT contract. Now it’s auditing the agency | Exclusive
The Oregon Legislature selected an engineering firm to audit ODOT despite them being tapped to complete $1 million in work for the agency.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 14/08/2026
please please please please take this survey and tell the legislature/odot that you want to see public transit, street safety and road maintenance prioritized over needless billions towards freeway expansion. www.cognitoforms.com/ODOT2/ROTVSu...
cognitoforms.com
Rebuilding Our Transportation Vision Survey
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RJ Sheperd @rjsheperd.com · 14/08/2026
The Safe Routes to School, Community Paths and Rail Infrastructure funding MUST be made whole (with interest) after this find. Children have been denied safety infrastructure, communities denied critical missing links, and Amtrak Cascades the local match for getting to 6 daily round trips.
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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Shame on the governor for again using this manipulative framing. By categorizing the freeway expansion projects as “maintenance”, this push poll is gonna prioritize more lanes over maintaining the bus service we already have If you care about transit in Oregon fill out the damn survey
Preserve Key Assets
Bridges and roads are regularly repaired and replaced to ensure long term performance of Oregon's transportation system and avoid higher repair or replacement costs later.Is there anything you'd like us to know about your choices? Please share your thoughts below.
Un-bundle "preservation" from the
REPLACEMENT of assets like bridges.
We've seen seismic readiness and placemaking maliciously bundled to capacity projects on IBR, rose quarter, and Abernathy bridge projects. Maintenance should be maintenance, not bundled to other things in effort to greenwash them.
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Rockom Sockom NoBots @rockom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
PORTLAND URBANIST ALERT! How should Oregon transportation dollars be spent? The Rebuilding Our Transportation Vision Workgroup is reviewing transportation needs, funding challenges, priorities, and tradeoffs to provide recommendations that will inform action in the 2027 legislative session.
cognitoforms.com
Rebuilding Our Transportation Vision Survey
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 14/08/2026
"How much is too much?" No More Freeways co-founder @chrissmith.us testified today to the Oregon Transportation Commission about the latest $3 billion cost estimate for ODOT's proposed Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 13/08/2026
"Nearly $56 million in unobligated funds that could have been used to help balance the Oregon Department of Transportation's budget never made it to the negotiation table in the 2026 legislative session, the agency told the Statesman Journal." www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/p...
statesmanjournal.com
Why nearly $56M from ODOT wasn't used to balance budget | Exclusive
Information about nearly $56 million in funding that could have been used to balance ODOT's budget in the 2026 session was not shared with lawmakers.
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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is why we can’t have transit
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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is an emergency, we need our state leaders to act like it. We NEED transit, and improving transit service in the Portland metro supports the entire state because of the economic activity and tax revenue it generates. Fund TriMet!
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amb @amb.fyi · 12/08/2026
Nothing short of a five alarm fire - to which the legislature is responding with “hmmm well let’s give ODOT three billion dollars to widen a freeway into the backyard of Harriet Tubman Middle School”
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Heyzell @heyzell.myatproto.social · 12/08/2026
This is brutal. Public transit has never been great here but this would make it horrendous. But let's give all the city and county money to a billionaire sports team owner
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Really important piece of work on getting transit capital costs under control in the US. ifp.org/transit-abun...
ifp.org
The Transit Abundance Playbook | Institute for Progress
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 12/08/2026
Beating up on ODOT might be the one bipartisan tradition left in Oregon (Fact check: Rep Diehl is wrong - the project is expensive because ODOT is in fact doubling the width of the freeway to make space for a third and potentially fourth and fifth lane) #orleg #orpol
Rep Diehl beating up on the rose quarter on instagram
Sen Pham beating up on RQ on instagram
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 11/08/2026
Oregon cannot afford the proposed $3 billion Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion. Thank you Senator Pham!
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Madison Moskowitz @moskwtz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
$3 billion could build ~4500 permanently and actually affordable homes for Portlanders with incomes below $30-40k Or $3bn could widen a freeway that already cuts thru the heart of Albina and worsens air quality in NEP On which would you rather see your tax dollars spent? I know my answer…
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Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org · 04/08/2026
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?
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Blake PDX @pdxblake.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Finish Him
ALT: Finish Him
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joan @joanbybike.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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
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amb @amb.fyi · 04/08/2026
“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.”
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Catie Gould @citizen-cate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In two years it will be pushed back indefinitely and street improvements will never come, just as the safe streets advocates foretold.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 04/08/2026
"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."
oregonlive.com
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.
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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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 )
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 03/08/2026
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
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zachturc.bsky.social @zachturc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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.
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