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Of course.
Ugh I'm so sick of this bullshit narrative, that is not the full story. Copy/pasting my take on this from another thread:
Local media has been trying to frame this issue as a Republicans vs Democrats story because it’s treating ODOT priorities as a foregone conclusion, I find it incredibly frustrating and disingenuous and dangerous.
Up in Portland, Democrats are also fighting ODOT waste every single year as we repeatedly smack down proposal after proposal to widen the section of I-5 that cuts right through the center of Portland’s east side neighborhoods, a folly that would exceed at least two billion dollars. I’ve likened ODOT to a titan that does Attack On Portland at least once a year, it knows only highway expansion and it will never stop it’s assaults even though we keep defeating it.
These regressive highway expansions are ODOT’s greatest price increase pressure. Maintaining and replacing infrastructure wouldn’t yet require us to double the gas tax (Regardless of the fact that we probably should anyway, this is just about baseline need), but expanding highways sure does.
Urban Democrats protest by stumping at planning meetings and pushing back on local boondoggle highways. Rural Republicans protest by threatening a tax revolt and showing up at the state capital. I wish local media would acknowledge that we’re ultimately protesting the same waste, tenuously allied in the same fight, and examine ODOT’s budget priorities. When Republicans complain that ODOT should stick to maintenance and fixes, they’re right. We do transit through other agencies that often don’t even touch gas tax. ODOT is a highway monster, by design.-