Category: Columbia Crossing

  • Tonight and Tomorrow: Columbia Crossing Open Houses

    After all the discussion here about the Columbia River Crossing project, I hope everyone will take the time to come to one of the open houses coming up in April. I’ll probably be at the Thursday session. It’s important that all the comments get put on the record [we haven’t been able to convince them…

  • Columbia Crossing Options Narrowed

    The Columbia Crossing is all over the front page of the Oregonian this morning following a four hour meeting of the Crossing Task Force last night. The task force narrowed the options under consideration. As Jill (a task force member) reports in a comment to her earlier post, a west side bypass to a third…

  • The Westside Bypass Rears its Ugly Head Again

    At the last meeting of the Columbia River Crossing Taskforce participants got a first glimpse of the all of the potential transportation improvements that are being considered for I-5 across the Columbia River. Much to my alarm the list includes a couple of ideas that smack of what was considered a done deal in 1988…

  • Help Sam Figure Out the Columbia Crossing

    Over at commissionersam.com, the commish is asking about options on the Columbia Crossing. Head over there and help educate him!

  • Election News from Washington State

    From the Seattle PI: Voters reject shortened monorail line Initiative 912: Urban strongholds successfully keep gas tax The latter is signficant for our region as $50M of the gas tax in jeopardy goes to fund design work on the Columbia Crossing project.