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CRC Poised to Swallow State Transportation Budget?
One of the ‘promises’ of the Columbia River Crossing project is that it would not cannibalize funding for other projects in the region. The idea was that this was a “project of national significance” and Congress would provide dedicated funding for the Federal component above and beyond our usual allocation. But as we noted when…
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CRC Gets $5M More to Advance Unfundable Design
The Columbia River Crossing project today announced the receipt of two grants (one through ODOT, the other through WashDOT) totaling $5M: CRC received the award available under the Interstate Maintenance Discretionary (IMD) Program with a $2 million grant to the Washington State Department of Transportation and a $3 million grant to the Oregon Department of…
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Oregonian Begins to Recongize CRC Reality
No one is going to step up to pay for the current overblown design of the Columbia River Crossing. So how much longer will we keep spending millions per month planning something that shouldn’t, and perhaps more relevantly, can’t, be built? What needs to happen now is: Amend the project purpose and need statement to…
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More from CPI: Calls on Congress to block MLR, but still build the bridge
Our friends at Cascade Policy Institute have been busy, with a letter being sent to House Transportation chair John Mica (R-FL) asking that funding for Milwaukie Light Rail be deleted from future federal appropriations. While Mica and the GOP is known to be targeting discretionary funding, including infrastructure, as part of budget cutting exercises, whether…
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SW Corridor now has a “fact sheet”
The public process of the Southwest Corridor project is moving along, with publication of a project fact sheet, and the designation of committee stakeholders. The fact sheet is the more interesting bit, given that it comes with this map showing the corridor area (map courtesy Metro): As you can see, in addition to the “obvious”…