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CRC City Club Forum Widely Covered
Friday’s City Club program on the Columbia River Crossing has gotten a fair amount of press coverage: Rumble! It’s the City Club Forum on the Columbia River Crossing Portland Mercury Blog Sparks, opinions fly in I-5 bridge project debate Portland Tribune Interstate 205 bridge over the Columbia River may get tolls Oregonian Issues pile up…
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CRC at City Club on Friday
From City Club: The I-5 bridge across the Columbia River is a major congestion point on the I-5 corridor. Anticipated population growth and commercial development, along with traffic safety issues and earthquake preparedness, are driving a public conversation around how to address these challenges.The Columbia River Crossing Project, a joint project of the Oregon Department…
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Council Drinks CRC Kool-Aid wthout Benefit of Hearing
The Mercury and Oregonian are both reporting that all five Portland City Council members have signed on to a letter (the Mercury site includes a link to the letter) embracing the replacement bridge for the Columbia River Crossing along with a number of conditions that map pretty closely to the Metro resolution (independent analysis of…
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Oregonian Delves into CRC Induced Demand Issue
Sunday’s Oregonian includes a front page article on the question of whether widening the Columbia River Crossing to twelve lanes will trigger land use changes that will in turn help congest the bridge again (and negatively impact air qualify). The Oregonian has learned that traffic forecasters involved in planning a new bridge, projected to cost…
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CRC Poll You Can Participate In
The Business Journal has an online poll running on the CRC. Let them know how you feel.