Recent email to the idiots at ODOT...

I would like to know why the main arterial infrastructure of the entire metropolitan area is grossly underdesigned? I travel regularly on a fair amount of Portland's main arterials, so I know the traffic issues first hand; and I see the DAILY traffic jams on ALL of Portland's freeways and expressways. They were underdesigned when they were built in the 60's and 70's, and ODOT has done nothing to make them appropriate for the amount of traffic we have, much less to accommodate future traffic. Whoever is in charge needs to wake up from their 40-year nap and figure this out! A 12 yo kid with SimCity could do a better job at designing our infrastructure! Hwy 217 was just repaved. Nice! More lanes? Nope! Ease traffic congestion? Nope! Hwy 26 was finally (almost) finished. Nice! More lanes? One. Ease traffic congestion? Not much, if any. I-205 bottlenecks at the Abernethy Bridge. I-5 bottlenecks through the center of the city!! If ODOT were a privately held company, they would have gone out of business 30 years ago! But since they're government, I guess it's okay to be ludicrous! Tell whoever is in charge there...figure it out!! Let me know if he/she needs their hand held and some common sense spoon-fed to them...It would only take about 4 hours to give them a clue...