A plethora of events coming up!

• Tonight: (Jan 11) – Occasional Portland Transport contributor Greg Raisman is presenting on traffic calming “Lessons From Europe: A Look at Residential Streets” at 7pm at Southeast Uplift.
• Wedneday: (Jan 13) Co-Vice-Chairs Gail Achterman and John Van Landingham will be presenting the recommendations of the MPO GHG Task Force to two legislative committees on Wednesday, January 13.
  

  House Interim Committee on Transportation: 1:00 PM
  Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee 1:45 PM

  Typically, you can listen to or watch these hearings online. First double-check the time and find out the hearing room at http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/. Then go to http://www.leg.state.or.us/listn/ and click on the audio/visual for the hearing room.

• Also on Wednesday: The 3rd Bridge (over the Columbia) folks invite you to an open house:
  

  Wednesday January 13, 2010

  Open House
  Third Bridge Now Headquarters
  5003 N. Lombard St.
  Wednesday January 13, 2010
  2PM – 8PM
  Please feel free to invite others!! The More the Merrier.

  Happy New Year! Mark your calendars and head on over…. Wednesday January 13, 2010 from 2PM – 8PM we will be having an Open House for the Third Bridge Now campaign and headquarters. We have a lovely headquarters at 5003 N. Lombard St. It is a great space 3,400 sq. ft., floor to the ceiling windows facing Lombard St. It has a 100′ x 50′ yard space for BBQ and outside events….. Yippy! We plan on having an information gallery, meeting room, strategy working space, and office area. We will be inviting in groups, individuals, and elected officials to show them there is an alternative that adds capacity across the river, connects the majority of the industrial areas on one continuous corridor, provide direct freeway access to I-5 freeway from the ports and industrial areas, removes freight and overflow traffic from neighborhood streets. This new freeway is on mostly bare vacant publicly owned land with no interference during construction with I-5 freeway or current roadways. Construction can start immediately, instead of waiting for removal or encroachment issues of over 250 private properties. The Third Bridge Corridor will provide jobs now, and needed infrastructure for jobs in the future……. Relieving congestion, addressing safety issues, cleaner air, helping the economy, environment, and adding a new freeway that will not increase urbane sprawl. The bridges on this alignment are already in the adopted Oregon Regional Transportation Plan of 2000.

  Come Be A Part Of The Solution!

• Finally looking ahead to March 9th, an all-day Rail Summit in Eugene is going to look at the entire Pacific Northwest corridor. Stay tuned for details.