When he was Federal Transit Administration chief, Peter M. Rogoff in 2009 OK’d $813 million in federal grants to Seattle-area rail agency Sound Transit to boost construction of a regional light-rail line.
More than half of Oregon’s state highway system bridges—that’s more than half of the 2,700 bridges the state department of transportation owns, not even counting the other 4,000 owned by cities and counties—were built in the 1950s and 19060s.
