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CRC Slips a Year
One of our correspondents attending the meeting at the Columbia River Crossing oversight committee at the Oregon Legislature reports that WSDOT officials said multiple times that construction would start at the “end of 2014”. While it was not acknowledged as such, that represents a year delay in previously communicated schedules.
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SW Corridor Purpose and Need
Scotty recently had a great discussion about the importance of the Purpose and Need statement for a project. Last week, the steering committee for the SW Corridor Plan met to discuss the draft Purpose and Need statement for the project. Here’s the agenda packet (PDF 4M) for that meeting. It contains both the draft Purpose…
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Oregonian Losing Enthusiasm for the CRC?
It would appear the bloom is off the rose: “We are thus at a point where all of the options are bad.”
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UPDATED: An update on the Fourth Plain BRT project
UPDATE: The Vancouver City Council last night approved the project, voting to support a mixed traffic configuration (with both center and median stops), extending out to NW 121st. Older content after the jump.
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Southwest Corridor BRT?
In the previous post, we noted that Metro had approved study for the Powell/Division corridor. A Metro planner indicated that the region in the future would be pursuing a less capital intensive strategy in the future, and hinted that the Southwest Corridor might just not be light rail. The Southwest Corridor stretches roughly from downtown…