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Kudos to the Trib
Yesterday’s Tribute was pretty much a special issue on Transportation, including a cover story, editorial and “ReThinking Portland” section on the Regional Transportation Plan update. Overall I think they did a good job of framing the issues, and I’m in agreement with the editorial about needing leadership across all sectors of the community to deal…
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What’s in a Headline?
Monday’s O had a piece by Jim Mayer on the Regional Transportation Plan. It did a good job of pointing out the resource disparity and contrasted the “we have to do more with less” point of view (Rex Burkholder) with the “we need to think big and find new funding sources” perspective (Clackamas County Commissioner…
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Updated: Staff Says Tear Them Down
Update: 11/22/06 DOT officials continue pushing the message in today’s O. Original Post: 9/29/06 The recommendation from the project staff for the Columbia River Crossing is to remove the existing bridge spans because of seismic issues and challenges with river traffic. But the older span is on the National Register of Historic Places. And a…
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$57M Park and Ride?
Frank Dufay is a neighborhood activist in SE Portland and a regular rider of the TriMet #14. Pave Paradise? Maybe not paradise, exactly, but a healthy chunk of South Waterfront will be disappearing under surface parking lots. You would think this new neighborhood, pedestrian-friendly, urban, dense, served by the Streetcar, buses and the Tram…well, how…
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Riverfront for People Discovers the Blogosphere
Interestingly, yesterday posts appeared on both Blue Oregon and BikePortland discussing putting the Eastbank Freeway into a tunnel. Of course, we had it first :-)