The Oregon Transportation Commission recently considered how to allocate the $412 million of flexible funding Oregon received as part of the federal infrastructure package.
“These resources will help us make vital improvements to our transportation system. But this funding should also be viewed in context,” Commission Chairman Robert Van Brocklin said. “We face a $5 billion bridge maintenance backlog… We can make progress on many of our goals, but we cannot solve the vast majority of our funding problems with the money from this legislation. We also need to pursue other revenue sources to produce sustainable transportation funding to invest in a reliable, diverse transportation system.”
