After nearly a decade of planning and frequent political and financial obstacles, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is closer than ever to breaking ground on its I-5 Rose Quarter project—at least, part of it. ODOT’s full plans for I-5 through Portland’s Rose Quarter include widening the freeway in both directions and covering it with caps, which will reconnect the historically Black neighborhood that was bisected by I-5 construction in the 1960s. However, the agency’s...