No, it's not revenge.

ODOT understood for years before the "No Build" decision (March 2007) that the WEP was not legal, there were not funds to build it, and privately they recognized it was not going to happen.  Jim Torrey, Bobby Green and Randy Pape even conceded this in June 2001 at the "West Eugene Charette."  Then City Councilor Pat Farr admitted this the following month at a Council meeting.  These politicians (and a few others) prefer, in public, to blame liberals and ODOT for the failure of this project when the reality is the money was never there but numerous legal obstacles were there, especially Section 4(f) of the Transportation Act, which prohibits federal funds for highways through parks.

Spending money to fix the ramps at Delta / Beltline, which is still planned, will be less than a tenth of the cost and fix most of the problem.  When fracking declines further and the Alaska Pipeline shuts down due to low flow traffic jams will be the least of our problems.