Trump dumps Portland grant ($2B boondoggle, director resigns)

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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