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Loop Group Goes Underground
Update: 10/16/06 Randy Gragg weighs in on this issue in his Sunday O column. Original Post: 10/9/06 According to the Portland Tribune, the next phase of the downtown Portland freeway loop study (known affectionately as the “loop group”) will include consideration of a tunnel to replace the Eastbank Freeway.
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More Transit Mall Broken Eggs
Jim Mayer picks up in the Oregonian (“Downtown’s maze gets tricker”) where the Tribune left off, talking about disruption to businesses from Transit Mall and related construction. Meanwhile, the Business Journal is reporting on an eminant domain fight (subscription required unfortunately) over the properties on the southern end of the mall where TriMet is putting…
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You Can’t Make a Mall without Breaking Some Eggs
Yesterday’s O included an article on expected disruption to retail during the upcoming Transit Mall reconstruction. At the same time, TriMet has just launched a web site (http://portlandmall.org/) just for the project. You can get more details at a series of open houses that TriMet is holding in November.
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CRC Skepticism from a Metro Councilor
Councilor Liberty was kind enough to share this memo (PDF, 39K) to his Metro colleagues [already in the public record] regarding the Columbia River Crossing project. He has some doubts: The problem is defined entirely in terms of vehicle movement (cars, trucks, bikes, pedestrians, transit) and safety. The definition does not encompass the sources of…
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Updated: CRC and River Navigation
Update: 10/05/06 The Metro Council received a briefing on the CRC at their work session on Tuesday and commented on the potential of realigning the barge channel through the rail bridge as a way to simplify the overall problem, and the difficulty with doing so because of the private ownership of the rail bridge. The…