Environmental Assessment – Letters submitted to the Oregon Department of Transportation for the Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion Public Comment period:
No More Freeways – Official Letter
No More Freeways – Technical Traffic Analysis Memo
City of Portland Commissioner Chloe Eudaly
Oregon Representative Karin Power (District 41)
Multnomah County Commissioner Susheela Jayapal
OPAL – Environmental Justice Oregon, Neighbors for Clean Air, 350 PDX
Parents from Harriet Tubman PTSA
Safe Routes to School – Pacific Northwest Chapter
City of Portland – Bicycle Advisory Committee
City of Portland – Pedestrian Advisory Committee
Active Right of Way (submitted in 2012)
Association for Oregon Rail and Train Advocates (AORTA)
Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission
Business for a Better Portland
Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
Eliot Neighborhood Association
Foster Powell Neighborhood Association
Irvington Community Association
ODOT provided the full record of public comment received from February 15-April 1st, 2019 in June. Our research shows that 2200+ letters were sent, with 89% in explicit opposition to the project as proposed during ODOT’s 2019 Environmental Assessment. You can see the full record of comments received by ODOT on their project website.
*The document provided here is the memo that PPS staff wrote, and the district voted to approve.