Month: June 2008

  • CRC City Club Forum Widely Covered

    Friday’s City Club program on the Columbia River Crossing has gotten a fair amount of press coverage: Rumble! It’s the City Club Forum on the Columbia River Crossing Portland Mercury Blog Sparks, opinions fly in I-5 bridge project debate Portland Tribune Interstate 205 bridge over the Columbia River may get tolls Oregonian Issues pile up…

  • Encouraging New Transit Users

    Via Planetizen: Apparently for a variety of transit systems in the Bay Area, today was “try transit for free” day, trying to get new users to check it out. Maybe TriMet should give this a shot?

  • Our Drivers Greenest!

    The Daily Journal of Commerce is reporting on a “Men’s Health” magazine article ranking Portland 3rd in the nation for the “greenest drivers”: The magazine said it ranked 100 U.S. cities by using data including gas consumption, miles driven annually, air quality (ozone and particle pollutants), vehicle efficiency (size, age, and frequency of tune-ups), mass…

  • CRC at City Club on Friday

    From City Club: The I-5 bridge across the Columbia River is a major congestion point on the I-5 corridor. Anticipated population growth and commercial development, along with traffic safety issues and earthquake preparedness, are driving a public conversation around how to address these challenges.The Columbia River Crossing Project, a joint project of the Oregon Department…

  • Council Drinks CRC Kool-Aid wthout Benefit of Hearing

    The Mercury and Oregonian are both reporting that all five Portland City Council members have signed on to a letter (the Mercury site includes a link to the letter) embracing the replacement bridge for the Columbia River Crossing along with a number of conditions that map pretty closely to the Metro resolution (independent analysis of…