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Sellwood Funding Coming Together?
The Multnomah County Commission is getting read to add $19 to your auto registration fee and apparently Clackamas County will follow with $5. Coupled with the City of Portland diverting some of the increase in gas tax revenue it will see from the Legislature’s transportation package, will this be enough to get the Sellwood Bridge…
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The Future of Portland Transportation has Two Wheels
The public comment draft of the new, improved Bicycle Master Plan is on the streets. If you don’t want to print the full majesty of the document, you can find a hard copy at your local library. You can provide comment until November 8th. Or you can come to Planning Commission on Tuesday, October 27…
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TriMet Responds on Bridge Design
TriMet spokesperson Mary Fetsch e-mailed me a few minutes ago with the photos you see here (click on the photos to view full-size, the thumbnails don’t really do them justice) and the following statement: Chris: We have selected a bridge architect with more than 40 years experience working on signature bridges including cable-stayed , suspension…
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Sellwood Deal Struck in Transportation Bill
Apparently I wasn’t the only one to notice the insanity of both failing to fund the Sellwood Bridge AND removing the ability of the County to introduce a fee for doing so. The Oregonian reports that language has been inserted in the road-centric transportation bill to allow Clackamas and/or Multnomah Counties to have a registration…