Posts tagged: Oregon Legislature

BEST Executive Director Rob Zako summarized the challenges and opportunities at a meeting of the Transportation Options Group of Oregon.

On July 17, BEST urges you to comment to the Joint Committee on Transportation about who benefits, who pays, and who decides.

You can’t measure the cost of each lost life. Except we can and do, every time we make choices about how to invest transportation dollars.

The Joint Committee on Transportation is touring the state to discuss the need for stable and sufficient funding.

The Oregon Department of Transportation is asking the Legislature for more funding to operate and maintain existing highways.

BEST joined Protect Oregon Recreation, Oregon Trails Coalition, and others in calling on state lawmakers to restore recreational immunity for land managers that open their lands to the public.

BEST joins The Street Trust and others in urging state lawmakers to establish a task force to recommend how to update laws to support e-micromobility.

BEST joins The Street Trust and others in supporting House Bill 4067 to create the Task Force on Electric Micromobility and opposing House Bill 4103 to modify the definition of an electric assisted bicycle.

BEST joins Protect Oregon Recreation, Oregon Trails Coalition, and others in calling on state lawmakers to restore recreational immunity for land managers that open their lands to the public, in particular, with the -3 amendments to Senate Bill 1576.

BEST supports Senate Bill 1537 to provide affordable housing for Oregonians—if amended to remove UGB expansion loopholes.