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Train Wreck
Update 9/8/06 This morning the Oregionial Editorial Board weighed in, opposing tolling 99W where it would parallel the new bypass. Original Post: 9/5/06 the phrase quoted in this morning’s O from a county commissioner describing the potential toll road bypass around Newberg and Dundee: “That’s just not going to fly,” said Yamhill County Commissioner Leslie…
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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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Tram Facts
Sunday’s Oregonian has a two-part Q&A style piece by Ryan Frank discussing mostly operational issues with the OHSU tram. The mid-air rescue scenario is pretty harrowing, if unlikely (there are two backup power sources to get the cars back to the terminals if the main electrical motor fails). The engineers claim that they have a…
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Henry’s Lament
Last week’s meeting of the Burnside Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) was interesting from a number of points of view. First, the couplet continues to score best on virtually all the criteria. The ‘new’ news at this meeting was that it wins on travel time and on the urban design criteria.
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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…