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KBOO Bike Show: The Suburbs
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.8MB) We explore bringing cycling to the suburbs with Washington County, our neighbor to the west. While Portland likes to ring it’s proverbial bike bell for being bike friendly, we’re talking to Hal Ballard, Executive Director at the Washington County Transportation Coalition, Heather McCarey, Executive Director of the Westside Transportation…
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CRC at Metro Again this Week
This week the Metro Council takes up the issue of authorizing President Tom Hughes to sign the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Columbia River Crossing project. They’ll discuss this at a work session on Tuesday and Council meeting on Thursday. This is Metro’s last major sign off on the project.
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Always Read the Fine Print: CRC Edition
Last week we mentioned that the Columbia River Crossing had lowered its cost estimate. Our correspondent Joe Cortright read the fine print on the document involved (the Cost Estimate Validation Report – PDF, 1M) and found a few interesting tidbits: Why do they put this out on a Friday afternoon, the slowest news period of…
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My Favorite Apartment Rental Sign
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CRC Updates
Keeping you up-to-date on the latest goings on with the Columbia River Crossing: 1) The project team has issued a press release indicating they’ve shaved $100M from the cost estimated based on design refinements. The cost estimate is now $3.5B rather than $3.6B. I feel so much better… 2) Congressman Earl Blumenauer signed on to…