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Updated: Oregonian Sniffs CRC Money Trail
Updated: July 13 Steve Duin follows up with some choice perspectives. Original Post: July 11 $130M so far. The spindoctoring is the most upsetting.
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Mica Transportation Bill Prompts Strong Reactions
I suspect the White House may be regretting that they didn’t put through a Transportation re-authorization bill two years ago when Jim Oberstar, the Democratic chair of the House Transportation Committee, pushed for it. Today John Mica, the Republican chair of the same committee released a draft of the reauthorization bill that cuts spending by…
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SW Washington Congresswoman Conditions CRC Support
According to the Columbian, Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler doesn’t feel she can advocate for Columbia River Crossing construction funding unless the vote for transit operating support is extended to the full C-TRAN service district.
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Vancouver City Council Thinks CRC Light Rail is a Done Deal?
Based on the quotes in this Oregonian article, it would appear that the view is that the citizen vote in 2012 is about how to fund transit operations on the Columbia River Crossing, not whether to: The C-Tran board of directors, which includes three Vancouver City Council representatives, has set a vote on the sales…
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CRC Parking Spaces at $55K Each
The Columbian is reporting that the three park-and-ride structures for the Light Rail component of the Columbia River Crossing will cost $158M to $178M (divide that by the 2,890 spaces to get the cost per space). That’s between 18 and 20% of the $850M cost of the Light Rail project. “The structures themselves are literally…