Category: Columbia Crossing

  • Hell Freezes Over: CRC Edition

    John Charles and Bob Stacey co-author an opinion piece on the Columbia River Crossing, and I agree with it.

  • Our Correspondent at the Legislature

    Columbia River Crossing skeptic and fellow traveler Joe Cortright reports that Friday at 1pm the House Transportation and Economic Development Committee has a scheduled work session on HJM 22, the resolution supporting Federal funding for the CRC, a measure that many fear will be used as justification for ODOT to divert existing state funds into…

  • Looking at the CRC Bridge Types

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Nancy Boyd (CRC project director for Washington), Frank Green, P.E., CRC structural engineering manager Topic: Columbia River Crossing Bridge Design Debrief When: Friday, April 15, 2011, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204

  • CRC: The Whole Story

    Cascadia Times now has their 9-part examination of the Columbia River Crossing online.

  • Outsource the CRC?

    That’s what the Columbian reports the Washington Legislature would like to study: some kind of public-private partnership, with the Columbia River Crossing being one of four projects for consideration (the others are in the Sound area). As Joe Cortright points out, that probably means a private party charging even higher tolls than already contemplated. Peter…