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Clackamas County Weighs in on CRC
The letter is very diplomatic, but makes three points very firmly about the Columbia River Crossing: If you toll I-5, you better toll I-205, we don’t want your damn congestion Keep the costs real and practical (and by implication the scope as well) Don’t you dare soak up all the transportation funding in the region,…
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A Graphical CRC One-pager
Click image for a full-size view A variation on the supplemental bridge theme, Spencer Boomhower gets his idea onto one page with full illustrations. Very nice!
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Pressure for “Plan B” at the CRC
I clearly missed an important meeting at the Columbia River Crossing Independent Review Panel yesterday. Metro President David Bragdon gave this testimony (PDF, 112K), with a clear call for “Plan B”: Moreover, we need an expedited process to get us to Plan B quickly, through a collaborative governance model which makes the highway divisions participants…
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What is The Next Interstate System?
What is the next infrastructure investment for the U.S. comparable to the investment in the Interstate Highway system in the 50’s and 60’s? The retrograde folks who run state highway departments have an answer straight from the 50’s: more urban freeways. (I’d laugh if it didn’t scare me so much). On the more positive side,…
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Busy Week for the CRC
Lots of Columbia River Crossing happenings this week: The Independent Review Panel (IPR) will convene for the first time, and will be met by a protest at its first meeting. PROTEST PLANNED FOR FIRST MEETING OF CRC ‘RUBBER STAMP’ PANEL (Portland, Ore.)–The Stop the CRC Coalition–a grassroots organization opposing the Columbia River Crossing Project in…