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Last Vote on CRC LPA
There’s one more body that has yet to vote on the Columbia River Crossing Locally Preferred Alternative. If you want to get your licks in one last time: The Southwest Washington RTC meets on July 22, at 4 pm at Clark County Public Service Center, 1300 W. Franklin, 6th Floor, Vancouver, WA. Also you can…
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Invasion of the Golf Carts
Sunday’s O details conflict between City and State laws in allowing folks in King City and Sherwood to take their golf carts to the grocery store. The same issue is being echoed nationally. What this really points to is latent demand for Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs), which are street legal, small electric vehicles. When are…
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Glenn Jackson’s Ghost Haunts CRC
A couple of local architects want to make sure the Columbia River Crossing doesn’t turn into another flat slab bridge. “We’re not trying to derail the project,” McCulloch said in an interview. “We think it should be pursued. The operative word is ‘enriching’ the process.” Renderings of Columbia River Crossing show what McCulloch calls a…
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Getting to Seattle, One Transit System at a Time
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EPA Doesn’t Think Much of CRC Either
From the Oregonian: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds that bridge planners did not adequately examine the potential for a bridge to induce sprawl, increase pollution and contaminate an aquifer that supplies Vancouver and Clark County’s drinking water. Among other things, the DEIS apparently fails to analyze whether they might be driving pilings into (and…