(Salem, OR) -- Republicans in the Oregon House are proposing 730-million-dollars in cuts to the Oregon Department of Transportation to avoid raising taxes. The cuts include the Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund, eliminating 68-million-dollars' worth of vacant positions, and the bike and pedestrian safety programs. They would also cut passenger rail, social equity and civil rights, and three percent of the administrative staff. Democrats are proposing a nearly two-billion-dollar increase in taxes and fees to support ODOT.