Safety and Mobility Policy Advisory Committee - Tia Williams April 27, 2022 Communications Director

Safety and Mobility Policy
         Advisory Committee
                                         April 27, 2022

                                 Tia Williams
                            Communications Director
                           ODOT’s Urban Mobility Office

The Urban Mobility Strategy is an initiative of Oregon’s Department of Transportation

Agenda
         1   Our history and challenges

         2   ODOT’s Urban Mobility Strategy

         3   Urban Mobility Strategy core projects

         4   Questions

How we got here

  • 2015-2016: Governor led                        • 2020: Urban Mobility Office launched to
    transportation visioning panel                   coordinate strategy for climate, equity,
                                                     safety and mobility

             • 2017: House Bill 2017 passed –               • 2021: House Bill 3055 passed –
               identified core projects and gave              allows for financial ability to deliver
               direction to toll                              core projects

The challenges
• Congestion: The cost of congestion on Portland freeways is
  $1.2 million a day. Portland is ranked No. 11 nationwide for
  traffic. The metropolitan area is expected to grow 23% by 2040.

• Safety: Portland area freeways saw 23,000+ crashes between
  2015-2019. Bottlenecks and outdated interchanges are putting
  Oregonians’ safety at risk.

• Earthquake preparedness: Without upgrades, the system will
  fail during a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. There is
  no seismic resilient interstate bridge across the Willamette
  River.

The Oregon Department of Transportation’s Urban
Mobility Strategy is a cohesive approach to make
everyday travel safer and more efficient in the
Portland metropolitan area.

How does the Urban Mobility Office
connect to the Urban Mobility Strategy?
   The Urban Mobility Office is advancing ODOT’s Urban Mobility Strategy.

                      the Urban Mobility Office is who we are

                     the Urban Mobility Strategy is what we do

           and to make everyday travel safer and more efficient is our why

ODOT’s Urban Mobility Strategy aims
to:
• Create a long-term, coordinated
  investment that benefits the whole state
• Improve safety
• Reduce congestion
• Prepare the region for a significant
  earthquake
• Provide reliable funding for maintenance
  and new projects

ODOT’s priorities

• Remove bottlenecks, reduce crashes
  and improve safety.
• Make I-5 a Lifeline Route during a
  major earthquake.
• Unlock funds to tackle future safety
  improvements.

ODOT’s priorities: Sustainability
• Make significant bike, pedestrian and
  transit improvements.
• Address climate emissions with tolling,
  encouraging transportation alternatives
  and reducing single-occupancy-vehicle
  trips.
• Invest in projects that will address
  transportation problems facing urban
  areas for generations to come.

ODOT’s priorities: Equity
• Engage diverse communities from the beginning to help
  shape projects.
• Expand opportunities for Disadvantaged Business
  Enterprise contractors to bid for contracts.
    • Rose Quarter Improvement Project: 18-22% DBE project
      opportunities estimated at $250M.
    • I-205 Improvements Project: 14% DBE project
      opportunities estimated at $14M.

• Pursue new approaches to local hiring through Federal
  Highway Administration pilot program.
    • Targets 8% preferred zip code hiring that will result over
      1-1.5M hours worked by our local workforce in at least nine
      trades on the I-205 Improvements Project.                     Rose Quarter Construction Manager/General Contractor team

An unprecedented effort
• Together, the scale of these projects is larger
  than any the state has tackled in decades.
• Our congestion pricing plan – in which tolls vary
  by time of day – puts Portland in the rank of
  global cities tackling these issues.
• Guided by this strategy, these once-in-a-
  generation opportunities can lift our communities
  up.

Urban Mobility
Strategy Core
   Projects

Status updates
OR-217 Auxiliary Lanes Project
      Construction began in December 2021 and will continue through 2025.
I-205 Improvements Project
      Phase 1A for seismically upgrading the Abernethy Bridge is undergoing a procurement process for the construction team.
      Construction is expected to begin this summer.
I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project
      Preparing an updated Environmental Assessment for the Hybrid 3 Highway Cover Option for public comment this summer.
      Early work Packages A and B are at 60 percent design completion phase.
Toll Program
      I-205 Tolling: The Metro Council approved amendments to the 2018 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), and the 2021-2026 Metro Improvement
       Program (MTIP) to add the preliminary engineering phase of the I-205 Toll Project to the guiding regional transportation documents. This allows the
       project to proceed with an environmental assessment and further design which will be available for public review and comment in summer 2022.
      Region Mobility Pricing Project: Currently in the initial planning phase, evaluating tolling for the entire I-5 and I-205 corridor.
I-5 Boone Bridge & Seismic Improvements Project
      The OTC authorized $3.7 million in spring 2021.
      The planning phase will include analysis and conceptual level designs to replace the bridge.
Interstate Bridge Replacement Program
      The program is using feedback from the community, stakeholders and agency partners, as well as data and modeling, to identify recommended
       design options to go into the replacement solution. A multimodal Interstate Bridge replacement solution will be shared in summer 2022.

ODOT’s Urban Mobility Strategy

Questions?