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Eastside/Westside Portland…since 1890!
Portland has been trying to tie itself together across the Willamette River for a long time. East Portland, Albina, Sellwood and St Johns were separate cities until voters approved mergers in the years between 1890 and 1915. Geography drives this…its tough to expand to the west over mountain range with heights over 1,000 feet and…
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Very Articulate CRC Dissent
Occasional Portland Transport contributor (and frequent commenter) Lenny Anderson had an excellent op-ed piece in Friday’s Tribune: “For change, reduce trips”
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1% of $2B is…
Lenny passed along this press release about tree planting (PDF, 33K) in conjunction with the I-5 Delta Park project and notes: The I-5 TF recommended a 1% for Enhancement fund for any I-5 projects… This is the first one to be implemented with $ from the Delta/Lombard project. Is the Enhancement fund alive and well…
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Thousand Little Fixes
Lenny passed on this pointer to an article about Seattle’s efforts to mitigate the closure of their bus tunnel. The meta-message is that lots of small operational improvements may have more impact on moving people effectively than large capital projects.
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Arterial Bridge haunts CRC
The Arterial Bridge option has been haunting the bi-state deliberations on the Columbia River crossing for some time. I was a member of the Governors’ I-5 Task Force…the so called “Trade Partnership”… (I cast the lone dissenting vote on the final report), and recall the night about mid way through our several years long discussion…