Oregon’s transportation system is ‘hemorrhaging.’ Is there a fix?

Beat Check with The Oregonian

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Across Oregon, county and city leaders say they don’t have the money to maintain their streets and sidewalks.

In the Portland area, a pair of mega transportation projects years in the making remain unfinished and drastically underfunded.

All the while, the Oregon Department of Transportation says will require an annual $1.8 billion boost to meet a growing list of transit needs throughout the state.

The agency’s director recently said the entire system is “hemorrhaging.”

On the latest Beat Check, reporters Shane Dixon Kavanaugh and Carlos Fuentes discuss Oregon’s transportation woes, attempts by state leaders to address them and the messy politics in the middle of it all.

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