Re: Plans for a privatised toll-road foiled in Yamhill County, OR, USA

On Jul 28, 9:31 am, The Man Behind The Curtain <no...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Steve A. wrote:
On Jul 28, 12:24 am, Carl Rogers <postmas...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,

According to the Salem Statesman-Journal (http://tinyurl.com/3d5eob),
plans were previously made to construct a toll-road around Oregon State
Route 99W. This toll-road would have helped offset State Route traffic
by providing an alternative path between Newberg and Dundee, in an area
affectionately referred to as wine country.

The 27-kilometre bypass was being considered by an Australian firm
well-known for public-private ventures. For now, the plans are
indefinitely on hold.

$500m is not a hell of a lot for an 11-mile highway... and even if
tolls won't pay for the whole thing, so what? Can't highway
departments build roads anymore supported by taxes?

No.

They're too busy siphoning away the money, the way they do all the
considerable money that comes out of people's pockets for schools,
social programs and other things. It's hard to do anything for the
people when you live in a thoroughly-corrupted "democracy."

John

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The Oregon state constitution requires that gas tax money be spent on
roads. ODOT's biggest problem is that they spend their money on the
most inefficient pavement maintenance methods that exist (blade
patching), so there's nothing left for new construction. And, since
in Oregon, planning is considered an end unto itself, not a means to
an end, they spend a fortune on elaborately detailed corridor plans
even though they don't have enough money to build 1% of what the plans
call for. Then, on the pavement end again, they invested heavily on
open-graded asphalt, which, when it fails, crumbles away down to the
previous lift.

I used to live in Dundee ('92-96) and worked to get the bypass
funded. Even then, when the cost estimate was $80 million, everyone
knew that the toll revenue wouldn't be adequate to fund the entire
project, so it shouldn't be any shock now. It's a shame; it has to be
the biggest capacity need in Region 2.

Rick Perez

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