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Keep the Pressure on: CRC Project Sponsors Meeting Today
Coalition for a Livable Future would like you to show up: Show your opposition to the CRC at the Project Sponsors Council Meeting – Friday, March 12th from Stop the CRC! and Coalition for a Livable Future Grassroots coalition Stop the CRC! is (again!) organizing activism at the next CRC Project Sponsors Council Meeting. Why…
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CRC Battle Lines Firming Up: Local Leaders and Enviros vs. Govs and DOTs
A group of local environmental organizations issued a letter today critical of the response from Governors Kulongoski and Gregoire to the request of local leaders to have more control of the Columbia River Crossing project: March 10, 2010 Dear Governors Gregoire and Kulongoski, We are writing on behalf of our organizations, which together represent thousands…
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Quote of the Week: “Of course, one planner’s sprawl is another’s economic development.”
From an article in the Daily Journal of Commerce suggesting that just maybe the Columbia River Crossing is going to increase sprawl.
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Sam Looking for Some CRC Nuance?
At both last week’s Transportation Cabinet meeting and during a panel discussion on KBOO, I’ve heard Sam express some ideas that I find encouraging as ways to focus the Columbia River Crossing project: The CRC acts as a freeway, an arterial and a local street at the same time. The design should comprehend these different…
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Guvs Talk Tough on CRC
Governors Kulongoski and Gregoire have responded to the letter from local officials asking for more local control and review of the Columbia River Crossing project: NO. “We feel strongly this project must go forward without delay,” Kulongoski and Gregoire wrote in their letter. Coverage by the Trib and a particularly trenchant comparison to the Alaska…