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September Columbia Crossing Meeting
The next meeting of the Columbia River Crossing Task Force will be September 27 from 4-8pm at the WSDOT offices in Vancouver. Key agenda items will include: Preliminary Design Concepts – Part Two Report on Existing Interstate Bridge Report on US Coast Guard Hearing Full details available on the meeting materials page of the project…
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Bridge Analogy
Up in Vancouver, B.C. (where I will be for the next couple of days, with a group from Metro), Gordon Price is complaining that a proposed bridge will cause land use and transportation problems throughout the region that the proponents refuse to acknowledge or analyze. Gee, I can’t think of anything like that down here.
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Randy’s Back
Oregonian Architecture Critic Randy Gragg is back from his fellowship at Harvard, and in one of his first columns after his return, he takes on the Columbia River Crossing project. Randy’s not looking at environmental or transportation concerns, he’s worried that just as the original construction of I-5 did, a new bridge will devastate the…
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Oregonian Reporter Poses Columbia Crossing Question
The Oregonian transportation reporter, Jim Mayer, posed this question about the Columbia River Crossing project as a comment to another post. I thought it was interesting enough to elevate to its own post. It will be interesting to look closely at the TDM-only alternative to see how it performs. Is it really possible to achieve…
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Additional Perspective on the Columbia Crossing Project
A reader passes along this link to an article in construction industry trade magazine about the Columbia Crossing. Two key points in the article: – Inclusion of transit in the bi-state agreement – Streamlined bi-state process to advance the project more quickly