"Let's be honest - the history of urban freeways in America is insidious." @MoveMpls' @MaryMorseMarti #Road2RuinSummit
@MoveMpls @MaryMorseMarti .@BethOsborneT4A shares information from @T4America's Congestion Con document; cities that increased freeway miles yet did not increase poluation still spent more time in congestion anyway. Induced demand is real! #Road2RuinSummit
@MoveMpls @MaryMorseMarti @BethOsborneT4A @T4America Regan Patterson (@Regan_Felice) giving the run down on just how abysmally unhealthy air pollution from cars and diesel trucks can be - especially for children. #Road2RuinSummit
@MoveMpls @MaryMorseMarti @BethOsborneT4A @T4America @Regan_Felice Just the coolest, most thoughtful and urgent stuff from Keith Baker and Reconnect Rondo, showing the theft of intergenerational wealth that directly targeted Black Minnesotans in St Paul with the construction of I-94. "We can quantify the loss." #Road2RuinSummit
@MoveMpls @MaryMorseMarti @BethOsborneT4A @T4America @Regan_Felice "We don't just need freeway mitigation - we need freeway removal...they are not equivelent. Mitigation keeps the macro problems in place" @IanLockwoodPE #Road2RuinSummit

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18 May
ok, buckle up, folks. We're about to get started w/ the Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion joint meeting of the Executive Steering Committee, Historic Albina Advisory Board, and the Community Advisory Oversight Committee.

starts at 4, we'll be livetweeting
to our knowledge, it's the first time the ESC (largely elected officials) the HAAB (Albina community members) and the COAC (contractors) have all met on same meeting

ODOT's been rumored to be intending to use this meeting to push back on community groups calling for better caps
We share the opinions of our pals at City Observatory:
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24 Feb
The documents @oregondot didn't want you to see:

NMF asked ODOT repeatedly over last few months about the freeway width. ODOT lied, and repeatedly said if we wanted to know more, we'd need to do a FOIA.

Unbeknownst to them, we already did a FOIA, and knew they were lying:
@OregonDOT First document is from 2017; 2nd is from 2019. It took *months* of FOIA efforts to get our hands on these very basic documents showing what @oregondot intends to build in the Albina neighborhood.

It shouldn't take months of legal posturing to find out what ODOT intends to build
@OregonDOT .@Joe_Cortright testified to the OTC about the freeway width in November.

OTC directed ODOT staff to meet with Joe, who asked point blank about the width.

ODOT's response, a month later?

"uhhh look at the EA. that's the width. file a FOIA if you wanna know more."
Read 15 tweets
23 Feb
Another day, another round of public testimony to an ODOT advisory committee!

Tune in shortly to hear No More Freeways, Tubman students at @SunrisePDX advocates testify to ODOT's Historic Albina Advisory Committee:

@SunrisePDX we're underway! testimony about to begin shortly. Tune in, should be good stuff.

@SunrisePDX lol, ODOT changed their agenda last night and suddenly has a new slide talking about air pollution on tonight's HAAC hearing.

Almost as though ODOT is worried about a big story that Willamette Week might be publishing tomorrow about air pollution
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