Author: rliberty

  • Liberty: We Must Consider More CRC Alternatives

    This is excerpted from Councilor Liberty’s February newsletter. The Columbia River Crossing Study: We Must Consider More Alternatives Than Just a New 10 or 12 Lane Freeway Bridge That May Cost Taxpayers $2 Billion There are very few regional decisions with greater consequences for us than whether to spend $2 billion of taxpayer funds to…

  • CRC Skepticism from a Metro Councilor

    Councilor Liberty was kind enough to share this memo (PDF, 39K) to his Metro colleagues [already in the public record] regarding the Columbia River Crossing project. He has some doubts: The problem is defined entirely in terms of vehicle movement (cars, trucks, bikes, pedestrians, transit) and safety. The definition does not encompass the sources of…

  • One Metro Councilor Challenges the Status Quo

    For the last 30 to 50 years, transportation planning in the United States has been: 1. Carried out largely in isolation from regional, city or neighborhood land use planning, even though we know transportation investments shape property values and land uses and land use regulations play a major role in travel patterns. 2. Based on…