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CRC Sponsors Council to Take Up Tolling
From the press release: Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council meets May 4 VANCOUVER – The Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council will begin a discussion of tolling at its next meeting on Monday, May 4. The agenda includes an update on recent tolling legislation, a background presentation and discussion of lessons learned from tolling…
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Could it be? Someone Finally Ready to Say NO to CRC
The Portland Mercury is blogging that the the $30M in the Governor’s Transportation Package for continued Columbia River Crossing planning is under attachattack in the Legislature. Be still my heart…
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Where’s Waldo? Traffic Forecast Inflation
There’s a great post on World Streets today about ways to inflate traffic forecasts (primarily to boost projections of toll revenue, but also potentially to justify projects). Today’s question: how many of these can you find in the Columbia River Crossing Draft Environmental Impact Statement?
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Duin Takes on CRC Design
Steve Duin’s Thursday column in the O blasts the Columbia River Crossing design. Among other things he quotes members of the project design advisory committee who have figured out that like other citizens trying to influence the project, they’re there for window dressing, not to actually change the DOTs’ agenda: Jeff Stuhr at Holst Architecture…
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DeFazio on CRC: “I keep saying, make it smaller…”
OK, that’s a paraphrase. Here’s the full quote from Willamette Week: What’s your take on the Columbia River Crossing? I have said from Day One, they should think small. And they have been thinking really big and really expensive. And I am not sure how that project moves forward and how they will fund it.…