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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…
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Speaking of the Mall
TriMet e-mailed their list yesterday with a message about a new visualization of the combined bus/LRT operation on the Transit Mall. Check it our here.
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A Better Alternative to Light Rail on the Mall
The primary arguments for putting light rail on the mall are that it is has been planned for a long time, is needed to increase capacity, provides access to Portland State and enables a connection to a future light rail corridor to Milwaukie. All of these arguments are flawed. Unlike the OHSU Tram project, there…
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Sellwood Slighted?
Unfortunately, I was not able to recruit a correspondent for Wednesday’s meeting on the Sellwood Bridge. It was competing with MPAC and the Columbia Crossing meetings the same night. But I’m a little surprised that I haven’t see any coverage in the Oregonian or Tribune. Did I miss it? The only coverage I’ve heard so…
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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…