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Counties and cities warn ODOT cuts would ripple to local roads, bridges and emergency response
Summary
Representatives for the Association of Oregon Counties and the League of Oregon Cities told the committee that reductions to ODOT maintenance, local-bridge programs and pass-through funding would magnify decades of underinvestment, strain county and city budgets and reduce emergency response capacity in rural areas.
Brian Worley, road program director for the Association of Oregon Counties, told the subcommittee that counties own 62% of non-federal roads—over 32,000 miles—and more than 4,000 bridges, and that reductions at ODOT would ripple to local governments that lack capacity to absorb the lost services.
"When the state is facing these levels of budget cuts, we all…
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