‘I want people to be able to rely on rail’: Oregon lawmakers push for rail funding in transportation package

ODOT’s structural funding challenges for road and bridge maintenance is a top agenda item in the 2025 session, but a handful of rail bills are also in play.

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon lawmakers are aiming to emerge from the current legislative session with a major new transportation package in tow, one that will hopefully address the Oregon Department of Transportation’s long-term structural funding challenges brought about by the slow-but-steady decline of gas tax revenue.

But transportation doesn’t just mean roads, and the first weeks of the session have seen a handful of bills pop up that specifically focus on Oregon’s rail system. The lawmakers sponsoring those

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