Stopping a Highway: Sensible Transportation Options For People (Stop) PWPB
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Molly O’ReillyAmerica Walks
Killing Portland Oregon’s Proposed Western Bypass
Freeway, 1989-1995
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A Tiny Group – A Big Victory
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Tiny Group – Big Victory
How does a very small group of citizens defeat the Oregon Department of Transportation?
We had good luck!
We worked hard and smart!
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A Strategy with Many Fronts
We listened and learned• What concerns people?• What did bureaucracies want, and say?• Strengths and vulnerabilities of the
Bypass proposal?• Language: transpo-speak vs. citizen-
speak• Where and how can we affect the
outcome?
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We Were Everywhere
Reinterpreted ODOT’s numbers• The study didn’t really say the Bypass
would accomplish very much, long term Joined every committee
• Citizens Advisory Committee, METRO, etc.
Reframed the issue• Broadened question to include our
answers
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We took our story to community meetings
Visual Preference Surveys Congestion would expand to the
metro perimeter Solutions?
• New light rail lines, TODs
“If Freeways were theanswer, Los Angeles would be paradise”
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Congestion and Vehicle Use: LUTRAQvs. The Western Bypass.
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Moving the Process
Demanded one EIS for a 3-stage project
Served on the ODOT Citizens Advisory Committee
Served on METRO’s Transportation Policy Alternatives Committee (TPAC)
Became neighborhood association officers
Monitored City, County meetings
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Being Effective
Show up prepared• Read all materials • Identify areas where your issue can be
inserted/deleted Be nimble; opportunities pop up! Reframe and put your reframing
forward Build partnerships, the broader and
unlikelier the better• Use volunteer strengths and interests
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Well?
We split the alliance. We gave powerful Bypass opponents
options to work for, and political cover to oppose the project.
We did the grunt-work to take the Bypass out of the METRO Transportation Plan.
We declared victory; no bypass built.