By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com
In 2017, Oregon lawmakers approved $500 million in new annual road taxes (gas tax, car tax, DMV fee hikes, bike tax, new wage tax).
Part of that new annual $500 million was meant to be spent on fixing the traffic jam around the Rose Garden area where the Portland Blazers, concerts and Winter Hawks play.  The project began as a just needing a few hundred million to expand lanes.
Then politicians added a billion to the cost be demanding that the existing Interstate-5 freeway become a tunnel by building on top of it. The top would be filled with homes, businesses and a park.
This exploded costs.
And now the federal government has said they will remove federal funds to such a boondoggle project.
The director of the I-5 Rose Quarter Investment Project has resigned.
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