ODOT re-writes history to hide its culpability for cost overruns (opens in new tab)

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is currently engaged in an audacious attempt to re-write history. In testimony to the newly formed Joint Transportation Oversight Committee, agency officials claimed that the staggering cost overruns on projects like the I-205 Abernethy Bridge were the result of “rushed” estimates forced upon them by the 2017 Legislature. The facts, however, tell a much different story of expensive, detailed planning followed by a complete collapse in fiscal acco...