Infrastructure

Sharing renewable electricity across long distances is among the most cost-effective strategies for slashing carbon emissions. Getting there will take local action as well as immediate upgrades across the region. Yet grid upgrades are regularly delayed for a decade or more by community opposition and interstate disputes.

President Biden's infrastructure spending plan includes $20 billion to reconnect neighborhoods that were obliterated by massive building projects. Portland's historically-Black Albina neighborhood is a textbook example of a community that could benefit.

Oregon still feels like “the bride left waiting at the altar,” said Sen. Lee Beyer, D-Springfield, after the Washington State Senate infamously refused in 2013 to fund a replacement for the century-old bridge.

Portland’s City Council took the first step Wednesday to approve $50 million in new spending to repair and update failing infrastructure citywide.  

A $5.3 billion transportation bill aimed at improving Oregon's roads, bridges and transit wins final approval in Legislature.

Congestion pricing, which has long been promoted by transportation reformers, is a key issue in massive transportation bill facing an uncertain future in Oregon Legislature.

The city has forecast a $18.4 million surplus for the next budget year. Mayor Ted Wheeler has proposed splitting it between two of his priorities: transportation infrastructure and services for the homeless.

The Oregon Department of Transportation's will sign up 5,000 drivers to test how a per mile tax would work in a program it calls "OReGO."