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Pre-tolls on the CRC?
A nugget mentioned in yesterday’s Willamette Week article on Oregon state treasurer Ted Wheeler’s finding that projected tolling revenue might be inaccurate, and reported this evening on KGW: In order to make up the shortfall, the CRC project committee might consider “pre-tolling”: Placing a toll on the existing interstate bridge, prior to the completion of…
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Eastside Streetcar delays and Buy America requirements
Its not often that two bloggers here happen to write an article on roughly the same subject on the same night, but that has happened tonight. (I call your attention to Chris’s article below). The Oregonian reported that the Eastside Streetcar line will be opening five months behind schedule–in November 2012–and with five vehicles rather…
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Oregonian Discovers Change in Streetcar Schedule
The story that the Streetcar Loop won’t start operation until September of 2012 has been bouncing around the internet today like ‘breaking news’, but it’s anything but. Back on New Year’s day I answered a question on this very blog with: “The Streetcar Loop will likely open in late 2012. The arrival of the vehicles…
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Ted Wheeler Agrees, CRC Traffic and Revenue Projections Unjustified
Coverage from WWeek. We now have two State Treasurers raising serious concerns about the assumptions behind the Columbia River Crossing project. Can they sway the Governors who so far seem to have been undeterred by any reality?
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Can the CRC Pay its Way in Tolls? Only in a Pipedream?
Apparently, the answer is “no one knows.” The Oregonian’s Jeff Manning digs into the consultants’ reports and finds the interesting conclusion that: “None of these models… was specifically developed for evaluating tolling applications, and therefore all of them lack to varying degree one or more of modeling features essential for road pricing analyses.” . Washington’s…