05-17-2018 Council Newsletter •
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1 6 Provided to the Tigard City Council on a weekly basis to stay abreast of current city issues.
May 17 2018
1. TPD Open House Cancelled 8. Council Calendar
The Tigard Police Department Open House scheduled Monday, May 21 Budget Committee Meeting
for June 16, 2018 has been cancelled. 6:30 p.m. —Public Works Aud.
2. Summer Council Meetings Tuesday, May 22 Business Meeting
The first Council meeting in June,July and August has 6:30 p.m. —Town Hall
been cancelled: Tuesday, May 29 Budget Committee Meeting
June 5 - for lack of agenda items 6:30 p.m. —IF NEEDED
July 3 - for Independence Day
August 7 - to attend National Night Out celebrations Tuesday,Jffne Business Meeting
Cancelled for lack of items
3. ODOT Open House on Hwy 217 Plans
The Oregon Department of Transportation is working Tuesday,June 12 Business Meeting
on a highway improvement project for Highway 217. 6:30 p.m. —Town Hall
ODOT staff will host an open house on Wed., May 23 FYI Only:
from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. in Beaverton at Whitford Middle Monday,June 18 Town Hall with Senator
School cafeteria (7935 SW Scholls Ferry Road). The Burdick &Reps. Doherty &
project is in the design phase with construction Williamson
expected to begin in 2020. 5-7 p.m. -Public Works Aud.
4. Construction Project Update Tuesday,June 19 Workshop Meeting
Mike McCarthy attached an overview of road, trail and 6:30 p.m. —Town Hall
construction projects underway in the city.
Tuesday,June 26 Business Meeting
5. Public Works Update 6:30 p.m. —Town Hall
An update on Public Works activities is attached.
6. Press Release
- Tigard set to begin Click it or Ticket seat belt
safety campaign
7. News
a Tigard's Safe Routes to School draws walkers,
bikers and strollers
a Missing 82-year-old found safe at Tigard Library
a Tigard local option levy turned down by voters
a Tigard police focus on seatbelts, car seats through
May
a New details on tolling options
a Consultants: 1-5 tolls could be a pilot
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May 23 open house will look at OR 217 safety project
Oregon Department of Transportation bulletin May 11, 2018 Contact: Don Hamilton, 503-704-7452
The ODOT staff working on the OR 217 improvement project will be available at a Beaverton open
house Wednesday May 23 to talk about the project and answer questions.
The open house will be 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday May 23 at the Whitford Middle School cafeteria,
7935 S.W. Scholls Ferry Road. No formal presentation is planned but the public can drop in any time
to look at materials and chat with the staff.
ODOT is in the design phase of the project with construction expected to begin in 2020. The main
elements include:
• Build on-ramp to off-ramp auxiliary lanes southbound from Beaverton Hillsdale Highway to
Greenburg Road and northbound from OR 99W to Scholls Ferry Road. These direct ramp-to-
ramp lanes reduce crashes by reducing merges into the highway's mainline.
• Add a frontage road between Allen Boulevard and Denney Road interchanges, removing a
southbound on-ramp and a southbound off-ramp. The new interchange will function like the
Canyon Road/Beaverton Hillsdale Highway interchange.
• Add an additional lane to the northbound off-ramp to Scholls Ferry Road.
• Replace the Hall Boulevard bridge over OR 217 at Pfaffle Street.
• Conduct a noise study to determine the feasibility of sound walls. The results will be released
later.
The Oregon Legislature last year authorized $98 million toward construction of this project in HB
2017, Keep Oregon Moving.
OR 217 connects Interstate 5 and U.S. 26, two major transportation corridors in the Portland
area. The road carries up to 120,000 vehicles a day. The highway has 10 interchanges in just over
seven miles of highway, giving it some of the shortest interchange spacing in the region.
Short weaving distances as seen on OR 217 contribute to high crash rates, with approximately 70
percent of crashes as rear end collisions. Afternoon peak travel times on OR 217 are unpredictable
and unreliable, varying from less than 10 minutes to more than 30 minutes. Closely spaced
interchanges cause significant bottlenecks, leading to high crash rates. More crashes mean more
congestion and more delays.
About 15 percent of the trips on OR 217 go from one end to another, the rest using one or more of
the interchanges.
Project design and engineering is now under way with construction expected from 2020 to 2022.
For more information, go to the project web site, www.Hwy2l7.org.
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Construction Project Update — May 16, 2018
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Pavement Patching in Northern Tigard Neighborhoods
This summer we will be slurry sealing many of the neighborhood streets in northern Tigard. While slurry seal is a
very cost-effective way to counter the effects of weathering,it does not stop cracking. The street crew is removing
and replacing areas of more heavily cracked pavement in preparation for the slurry seal work.
Interstate 5 (Hwy_99W to I-205) Paving and Auxiliary Lane
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is adding a southbound auxiliary lane on Interstate 5 from
Lower Boones Ferry Rd to I-205,improve on- and off-ramps, and repave Interstate 5 (both directions) from Hwy
99W to I-205. Expect some nighttime lane closures through fall 2019.
Wall Street (south of Hunziker)
Wall Street is under construction south of Hunziker Rd,with some construction on Hunziker. Access is available to
local properties (including Potso Dog Park) but drivers should expect delays.
Hwy 99W/Garrett St/School St
A developer is building new `specialty retail' stores along the northwest side of Hwy 99W across from Garrett
Street, near C.F. Tigard School.
113th Avenue south of Durham Road
A contractor is building a new subdivision along 113`"Avenue south of Durham Road and is now installing pipes
for water, storm, and sanitary sewer for the future new houses. Daytime delays likely.
Fanno Creek Trail (Woodard Park to Bonita and Hall Blvd to Tualatin)
Design work is in progress on a project to build the remaining segments of the Fanno Creek Trail from Woodard
Park to Bonita Road and build a new connection from the end of 85'Avenue (Hall Boulevard) to the Tualatin
Bridge. A crew will be drilling to evaluate soil for a bridge foundation near the library book drop May 23-25.
Contact Mike McCarthy at 503-718-2462 or mikerngtig rd=oror.gov with questions.
97th Avenue south of McDonald Street
A contractor is building a new subdivision along 97`'Avenue south of McDonald St,including connecting View
Terrace to 97th. Crews are laying pipes for water, storm, and sewer for future houses. Daytime delays likely.
Oak Street near 90"Avenue
A contractor is working on Oak Street near 90`'Avenue for a new apartment complex. Daytime delays likely.
East Fork Derry Dell Creek
Fieldwork is in progress on East Fork Derry Dell creek north of Gaarde St. This stream restoration project is to
protect exposed sewer pipes and undermined manholes along the creek.
Hwy 217 Auxiliary Lanes
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is designing a project to add an auxiliary third lane on Hwy
217 southbound from Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy to Hwy 99W, and Hwy 217 northbound from Hwy 99W to Scholls
Ferry Rd. More information is on the project website at hwy217.org
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Transition Plan
A consultant team is collecting data on sidewalks, paths, and ramps for our required ADA Transition Plan Update
to inventory accessibility needs on public facilities (sidewalks, parks, buildings, etc.). Crews are working in
northwestern Tigard on this project to advances our walkability. htw://www.tigard-or.gov/ada/
River Terrace Area Construction
• River Terrace subdivisions are under construction particularly on the east side of Roy Rogers Rd south of
Scholls Ferry Rd. If you have any questions,please contact Mike White at 503-718-2464.
• Bull Mountain Road Widening and Traffic Signal Construction: Work is underway to widen Bull
Mountain Road to 3 lanes with bike lanes, sidewalks and a roundabout. This project will also install a traffic
signal at Bull Mountain and Roy Rogers Road. Visit getusthere.org for information and updates. Bull
Mountain Road will be closed from 164"Ave to Roy Rogers Rd June 18—August 20.
• There are other significant road, sewer and water projects underway or planned in the area. Visit
getusthere.oro for information and updates.
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Public Works Update 5/17/18 Newste ter:r 7—�
Here is a summary of the work happening in Public Works.
SATURDAY MAY 19 We can't wait: Public Works Day is this Saturday!
Dump trucks and backhoes and bucket trucks, oh my!
Celebrate National Public Works Week (May 20-26) with some
hands-on fun, both inside and outside the Tigard Public
Library. Go high in the sky in a bucket truck. Operate a
1: backhoe. Tools, street signs and more fun activities in the
library. Take home your own construction hat. For more
information,visit www.tigard-or.gov/recreation.
City Crews from Lake Oswego & Tigard join Forces to Complete Field Testing &
Maintenance
This week the Public Works Water Division joined staff from Lake Oswego to perform routine system maintenance
as part of the Lake Oswego Tigard Water Partnership.
Valves are installed in the water distribution system to start and stop flow. As part of a program for routine
maintenance, the two jurisdictions joined forces for the first time to complete valve testing and maintenance. This
valve "exercise program" helps to ensure that city crews can complete needed repairs in a timely manner and
thereby reduce impacts to surrounding property owners,reduce water loss, and avoid more costly repairs.
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River Terrace: Website Helps Travelers Navigate Multiple Construction Zones
GetUsThere.or , a website providing construction information in the Roy Rogers CONSTRUCTION
Road area, has been created to inform travelers about possible delays or detours.
UPDATES:
Washington County Department of Land Use &Transportation (LUT), Clean
Water Services (CWS), the City of Tigard and Willamette Water Supply Program www.GetUsThere.org
all have construction projects that impact travel in the Roy Rogers Road area.
GetUsThere.org will provide travelers a one-stop source for updates on any traffic
impacts. The website includes an interactive map of all projects—both existing and future. It also includes a project
list in text/table form.
Jurisdictions collaborated to schedule some of these projects concurrently to save taxpayer dollars and to minimize
road construction impacts over time.
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13125 SW Hall Boulevard I Tigard,Oregon 97223 www.tigard-or.gov/police
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May8, 2018
Contact.
Jim Wolf,Public Information Officer
Tigard Police Department
Phone: 503-718-2561
Pager: 503-795-2391
Email: jim@tigard-or.gov
Tigard Set To Begin Click It Or Ticket
Seat Belt Sarty Campaign
The Tigard Police Department will once again participate in a nationwide traffic safety effort to
enforce Oregon seat belt laws. Oregon State Police, sheriff's and local police will all be working to
increase proper safety belt and child car seat use during the statewide traffic enforcement blitz
beginning on May 14 and continuing through May 27. The two-week long effort will work to ensure
motorists respect, obey and understand the importance of using seat belts and child safety seats
when applicable. Tigard Police officers will be focusing enforcement at various times and days
throughout Tigard. This effort is made possible through dedicated federal funding providing
overtime opportunities to carry out the program.
Recent statistics indicate that Tigard motorists demonstrated 97 per cent compliance regarding
passenger vehicle seat belt usage for front-seated occupants. The national average is just over 80
percent. While these figures are encouraging, it should also be noted that the lack of seat belt usage
was a major factor in half of all motor vehicle fatalities in Oregon during recent years. Information
regarding guidelines and correct usage for child safety seats can be found at www.oregonitni2act.org
Remember,in Tigard—click it or ticket!
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Tigard's Safe Routes to School draws walkers,
bikers and strollers
Times staff Thursday, May 10, 2018
Hundreds took part in the Wednesday event observing National Bike to School Day
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COURTESY OF CITY OF TIGARD:RUDY OWENS-Tigard Police Chief Kathy McAlpine attended Durham Elementary School activities,walking with
a group along Southwest Durham Road.
Hundreds of Tigard school children and their parents celebrated National Bike to School Day on Wednesday
when they biked, rolled and strolled to all eight of Tigard-area elementary and middle schools, all part of
Tigard's Safe Routes to School program.
Both Durham Elementary School Principal Rhett Boudreau and physical education instructor Bettina Megowan
lead students by foot to school.
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COURTESY OF CITY OF TIGARD:RUDY OWENS-Tigard school children participated in National Bike to School Day at Durham Elementary School
Wednesday,sponsored by Tigards Safe Routes to School program.
At the same time, Tigard Police Chief Kathy McAlpine attended Durham Elementary School activities, walking
with a group along Southwest Durham Road. The Tigard Police Department supported most of the biking and
walking events with officers at the schools since the department is an active participant in all Safe Routes to
Schools activities.
The Safe Routes to School program is grant-funded through a partnership with Metro and the Federal Transit
Administration.
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COURTESY OF CITY OF TIGARD: RUDY OWENS-Weather held out for National Bike to School Day observed Wednesday at all eight
Tigard elementary and middle schools.
Police: Missing 82-year-old found safe at Tigard Library
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UPDATE:
An 82-year-old man reported as missing on Wednesday was found safe, thanks to an
observant employee at the Tigard Library.
Police would like to thank everyone who helped share his story and bring Mr. Tran home.
ORIGINAL POST:
TIGARD, Ore. — Officers are asking for your help finding a missing 82-year-old who was last seen in Tigard on
Tuesday night.
Bao Tran reportedly left his home in Tigard on foot.
Family members say Tran is fragile and may have memory lapses. He's also unfamiliar with his neighborhood
near the Sattler and Durham Road areas.
If you see him, call 9-1-1.
Tigard local option levy turned down by voters
Ray Pitz, Tigard Times Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Plans were to add funding to police -- including extra officers-- as well as shore up library and parks-operations.
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money into police, library and parks maintenance operations
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results showed voters turning down the measure 55.93 percent
to 44.50 percent.
The levy had a multi-pronged plan that would have, among other things, reduced police emergency response times
as well as increase patrols in all the cities district by adding six additional officers in peak times. It also would have
retained the resource officers in schools and allowed for the Tigard Peer Court to continue.
Plans were also to use funds to improve maintenance for parks, trails, playgrounds and other areas as well as
increasing library programs and keeping current library hours.
On Tuesday night, City Manager Marty Wine said while she didn't know what to expect from voters that she believes
that while residents trust the city, they were not in favor of such a money measure at this time.
"We're stirred but not shaken,"Wine wrote in a press release sent out Wednesday morning. "We prepared for this
and the budget we proposed to the Budget Committee was developed with the mindset that we would not have a
levy. While this means we will now have to cut back some of the services we provide, we will still do our best to
provide quality services with the resources we have."
Wine pointed out that she had already recommended a $2.5 million reduction in the overall budget for fiscal 2018-19
in case the levy was not successful. Plans are to cut a similar amount in the next fiscal year.
What that will mean is a shuffling of police services including moving all but one school resource officer to patrol
duties the first year. In the following fiscal year it will mean closing Tigard Public Library on Sundays and Mondays.
Still, the Tigard Budget Committee will meet on May 21 to iron out the details of the planned department cuts.
The levy would have been $1.18 per$1,000 of assessed value of their property.
Tigard Police Focus On Seatbelts, Car Seats Through May
Federal funding will help pay for added seatbelt and car seat compliance enforcement for a two-week
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will ramp up safety belt enforcement throughout the city
as part of a statewide "traffic enforcement blitz," police
officials announced Tuesday.
TIGARD Using federal funds provided specifically to help local
departments afford overtime for officers, the Tigard
Police Department is joining Oregon State Police, the Washington County Sheriff s Office, and other
local law enforcement agencies across the state to improve seatbelt and car seat law compliance
during a two-week operation that runs from May 14 through May 27.
According to Tigard police spokesman Jim Wolf, the city's motorists have already"demonstrated 97
percent compliance regarding passenger vehicle seat belt usage for front-seated occupants."
"While these figures are encouraging, it should also be noted that the lack of seat belt usage was a
major factor in half of all motor vehicle fatalities in Oregon during recent years," he added.
The national average for seatbelt compliance is just more than 8o percent, Wolf said.
"The two-week long effort will work to ensure motorists respect, obey and understand the importance
of using seat belts and child safety seats when applicable," he explained. "Tigard Police officers will be
focusing enforcement at various times and days throughout Tigard."
For more information on the Tigard Police Department or its enforcement missions, visit Tigard-
OR.govZPolice.
$300 million a year from 1-5, 1-205 tolls? New details
on tolling options
Posted May 14, 2018 at 02:05 PM I Updated May 14, 2018 at 03:00 PM
Doug Beghtel I The Oregonian
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Portland area inched forward Monday, not unlike your
sorry soul doomed to be sitting in traffic later today.
The Legislature started the tolling discussion as part of
the $5.3 billion statewide transportation plan approved _
in 2017.
Actual tolls are nearly a decade away from reality, and there's no clear outline for how
future revenue could be spent. Meanwhile, we're in a bureaucratic traffic jam.
The committee tasked with offering advice this summer to the Oregon Transportation
Commission held its penultimate meeting to debate the narrowing field of options. Final
recommendations will come in late June at the group's last meeting.
Transportation consultants offered a sneak peek at their recommendations for how and
where to charge drivers in the future to navigate local freeways. It appears that tolls
could come to Interstate 5 first with the option to later explore future congestion pricing
on 1-205 or elsewhere.
Transportation Commissioners Alando Simpson and Sean O'Halloran cautioned that no
pricing plan would be cheap or be a magic congestion pill.
Simpson said freeway capacity and the threat of drivers diverting to local roads to avoid
paying the toll are not going away as the metro area grows. "I feel like these are going
to be forever problems," he said, likening the toll discussion to the "first mile to a
marathon."
O'Halloran said the region's growth rate, where it is expected to add nearly half a million
people by 2035, is inescapable. "No matter what we do, we're not going to have enough
money or enough resources to
pay our way out of congestion,"
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which will add caps to the
freeway in some areas and
add shoulders and auxiliary lanes to address merging issues with Interstates 84 and
405.
This plan could pull in $50 million in gross revenue annually.
This option projects travel time savings for Tigard, Tualatin, Lake Oswego, and central,
North and Northeast Portland. The plan would be viewed as a "pilot project," with an
evaluation and plans to either phase-in more tolls elsewhere or stop.
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Consider tolling all lanes on 1-205 at the Abernethy Bridge
Consultants also recommend slapping a toll on the Abernethy Bridge to help pay for a
new travel lane in each direction on the suburban 1-205 freeway bottleneck. This plan
would roll out the new toll just as the 1-5 project gets going.
This project would include a "high probability of diversion," as people looked to avoid
paying on this freeway.
Transit options are minimal or poor in this area, too, so transportation officials would
need to provide new options to help people get around the toll.
This option would be projected to pull in $350 million to $550 million over a 30-year
period.
Gerik Kransky, policy director for the nonprofit advocacy group, The Street Trust, said
he couldn't support this plan. "I really don't want to see our region getting into the habit
of applying a toll on a facility in order to make it wider or bigger," he said.
Paul Savas, a Clackamas County commissioner, said he wanted to see a separate
option remain on the table to just toll the additional lane on the Abernethy Bridge once
it's constructed. "We are creating a problem that we don't need to create," he said of
tolling the entire bridge, which he said will encourage diversion.
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Toll all lanes of both 1-205 and 1-5
The plan that consultants say would have the largest overall congestion relief benefits to
the region is not the first option they recommend at this time.
That's because the proposal to toll all lanes of 1-5 and 1-205 would likely send drivers
onto local streets in droves. "This could negatively impact safety for bicyclists and
pedestrians," the report said, "as well as drivers on these roads."
This plan could bring in $300 million in gross revenue annually, enough to pay for
operations and to "support capital investments" and solutions to make it easier for low-
income users to navigate around tolls.
However, consultants say they could see studying this plan after it has more information
about the success of tolling 1-5 lanes.
Rian Windsheimer, ODOT's regional director for the metro area, said he'd like to see the
recommendations tweaked to include adding existing highways beyond 1-205 in the
future. That could include Oregon 217, U.S. 26 or Interstate 405.
Consultants: I-5 tolls could be a pilot
Paris Achen/Capital Bureau Portland Tribune Monday, May 14, 2018
As a committee considers at least five options for tolling Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 through Portland, modeling
by ODOT consultants begins to show how the concepts would affect traffic and cost.
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wR-- PORTLAND—A proposal to toll all lanes of Interstate 5 in both
directions through the metro area would reduce traffic congestion in
that corridor and raise $50 million per year that could be put toward
road projects, according to an analysis by WSP USA.
Consultants with the New York-based engineering and
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they have analyzed —as a way to prove to area drivers that tolling
all lanes with a congestion-based price improves traffic flow.
The recommendation was given Monday to an advisory committee studying options to relieve congestion in the
metro area.
The proposal would involve tolling all northbound and southbound lanes of 1-5 between Going Street and Multnomah
Boulevard.
That concept"provides that best opportunity" and could be done relatively inexpensively as a pilot project, said
David Ungemah, a consultant and vice president with WSP USA.
The 1-5 corridor"has a lot of congestion that occurs through multiple hours of the day," Ungemah said. "We already
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transit services available in that segment of the region, as well as connections into high-demand activity centers,
such as the Lloyd Center and downtown Portland."
Choosing that proposal would "give some assurance that congestion pricing can work at reducing congestion,
meeting the objectives, as transparently evaluated by not only ODOT but also its regional partners," he said.
If successful, the Oregon Transportation Commission could expand tolling to all lanes of 1-5 and Interstate 205
through Portland, which is another one of the five options that have been modeled by the consultants.
Under their modeling scenario, the cost to a driver— if both interstates were tolled —would average about$1.39
per day, depending on the length and location of their commute.
The average daily cost would increase to $2.02 if only the 1-5 lanes were tolled.
The more lanes that are tolled the less expensive operating costs are to toll each lane, the consultants said.
They also recommended that the committee continue to consider a toll on the 1-205 Abernathy Bridge to help pay for
the cost of adding a third lane on the bridge. A toll of$3.50 to cross the bridge would yield about$50 million per year
to cover the costs of adding the third lane, according to the consultants.
They recommended eliminating two other options because those scenarios wouldn't produce the results the
committee is seeking. The first would convert the left northbound high-occupancy vehicle lane the left southbound
general purpose lane to a tolled lane through the Portland area.
"The problem is that the Abernathy Bridge is still going to be a bottleneck in that scenario, and that bottleneck is
going constrain conditions both on the general-purpose lanes as well as on the express lane, which makes that
concept not quite as viable as we were hoping for," Ungemah said.
The second option the consultants want to eliminate would apply a variable toll on a single, newly-constructed, left
lane between Highway 99 East and Stafford Road, including the Abernethy Bridge.
The Oregon Department of Transportation hired the consultants to assist a policy advisory committee charged with
recommending a tolling plan for 1-5 and 1-205.
The 25 committee members—who heard the results of the analysis during a meeting Monday, May 14— have not
committed to any of the five options the consultants analyzed. The committee also isn't restricted only to those five
options.
"Congestion" or"value pricing" refers to the practice of changing the toll price for a freeway or a lane based on how
much congestion is on the roadway during that time. During the rush-hour periods, the price would be higher, and at
some times at night, there might be no cost to use the same road.
A $5.3 billion transportation-funding bill passed last year requires the state transportation commission to consider
tolling in the Portland metro area but does not mandate it.
The advisory committee's recommendation to the transportation commission is due July 12. Transportation
commissioners have until December to send a proposal to the Federal Highway Administration, which would need to
approve any plan.
Working through approvals and impacts on the community and environment and installing infrastructure for tolls
would take several years, according to the state transportation department.