Portland City Council Officially Adopts Transportation Utility Fee - Portland Mercury
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The Portland City Council voted Wednesday to implement a fee that will offer a significant new source of funding for the city’s beleaguered transportation bureau. The transportation utility fee will be officially implemented starting in January 2027, coming in the form of an additional charge tacked onto Portlanders’ water and sewer bills. The new program […]

The fee will help pay for key road maintenance and safety programs, which have long gone without adequate funding.

  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Fucking lord why can’t this city manage to implement normal municipal taxes? Everything is a fee, or an office you have to send a separate check to. Every other city with it’s own taxes that I’ve lived in you just put your address into the tax software and you get a flat number for your city taxes. I’m happy to pay a tax for transportation, just don’t be so god damned weird about how it’s collected! Put my taxes on my tax bill!!

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    A. What does water and sewer have to do with transportation?
    And
    B. Billing consumed utilities is an inherently regressive tax and is a big step backwards.

    • audrbox@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Yeah this feels like an extremely dumb move, especially with all the recent financial mismanagement within the Portland government