Back in April, I enthused about the international design panel brought to Portland to critique the Columbia River Crossing and suggested it was worth the 2 hours to listen to the audio of the event. Happily, the highlights of that session are now available as three video segments of about 6 minutes each. If you…

So the editorial board decrees: The Columbia River Crossing, imagined for a decade and energetically planned since 2005, had bogged down this winter over objections from the city of Portland, Metro, Hayden Island residents and a gaggle of alarmed architects and urban planners. The delicate consensus reached two years ago to proceed with the bridge…

Randy Gragg takes on the Columbia River Crossing from the perspective of Hayden Island.

JK’s take (PDF, 809K)

The letter is very diplomatic, but makes three points very firmly about the Columbia River Crossing: If you toll I-5, you better toll I-205, we don’t want your damn congestion Keep the costs real and practical (and by implication the scope as well) Don’t you dare soak up all the transportation funding in the region,…