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Glenn Jackson’s Ghost Haunts CRC
A couple of local architects want to make sure the Columbia River Crossing doesn’t turn into another flat slab bridge. “We’re not trying to derail the project,” McCulloch said in an interview. “We think it should be pursued. The operative word is ‘enriching’ the process.” Renderings of Columbia River Crossing show what McCulloch calls a…
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EPA Doesn’t Think Much of CRC Either
From the Oregonian: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds that bridge planners did not adequately examine the potential for a bridge to induce sprawl, increase pollution and contaminate an aquifer that supplies Vancouver and Clark County’s drinking water. Among other things, the DEIS apparently fails to analyze whether they might be driving pilings into (and…
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Report Predicts ‘Mass Exodus of Vehicles off America’s Highways’
Via Planetizen: Over the next four years, we are likely to witness the greatest mass exodus of vehicles off America’s highways in history. By 2012, there should be some 10 million fewer vehicles on American roadways than there are today—a decline that dwarfs all previous adjustments including those during the two OPEC oil shocks (see…
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Vancouver USA City Council Votes for CRC LPA
Light Rail would extend as far as Clark College. The vote for the Columbia River Crossing Locally Preferred Alternative was unanimous.
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Express Your View on the CRC NOW!
It’s time to let Portland City Council know how YOU feel about the Columbia River Crossing proposal. Onward Oregon has an action page you can use to e-mail all members of Portland City Council (even if you favor the project you can use this page, you just have to tailor the message). Don’t delay!