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Mayor Adams Pushing for Cable-Stayed CRC
I haven’t seen any kind of press release, but this letter to the Governor just popped up in the RSS feed for the Mayor’s office (I think they have to upload attachments before they can create the parent post). In addition to the Mayor pushing the cable-stayed option for the Columbia River Crossing, it also…
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Mobility and the needs of freight
A discussion of the potential for freight-specific road infrastructure.
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A Tale of Two Bridges
An excellent op-ed that the Oregonian only posted online. A mega-bridge project was unpacked and only the key component moved forward. Unfortunately, the transit component was lost in the process…
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Squaring the circle: The problem of over-constrained projects.
How to deal with overly-constrained projects
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CRC Surrealism at the Cabinet Meeting
One of the several advisory groups I sit on is the Mayor’s Transportation Cabinet, which met last week. The Columbia River Crossing was the major agenda item, and it’s taken me a few days to recover enough from my deep depression over the conversation to write about it. It’s like some kind of reality warp…