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Kulongoski Calls for Congestion Pricing as Advocacy Group Launches CRC Alternatives Web Site
Speaking to the Oregon Environmental Council, Governor Kulongoski spoke strongly in support of congestion pricing (in the form of variable tolling at bottleneck points in the system). See Oregonian coverage and commentary by Jeff Mapes. Interestingly he has slightly altered his rhetoric about the Columbia River Crossing. He spoke of “offsetting” the greenhouse gas emissions…
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CRC – Who Pays?
In yesterday’s O, Joe Cortright asks who will pay for the Columbia River Crossing, and perhaps more importantly, what won’t we be able to pay for as a result?
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CRC and Sprawl
The Oregonian looks at the “sprawl angle” of the Columbia River Crossing: As Metro Council president David Bragdon sees it, the challenge is how to build a bridge “without 100,000 people thinking they can move to Battle Ground.”
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CRC Point/Counter-Point
In the last few weeks we’ve seen dueling op-eds on the Columbia River Crossing project: In support: Burkholder, Achterman, Hansen Replacing the Interstate 5 bridges over the Columbia River will be the single largest public works project in Oregon history. Getting to where we are today has taken the better part of a decade, tens…
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CRC Project Update
The latest informational update from the CRC mentions that the governors of both of the affected states have officially committed to building a new bridge across the Columbia. Additionally, the DEIS will be released in March on a date yet to be determined and, at the bottom of this post, some information and links about…