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Willamette Shoreline Transit Plugs Along
From Metro: Metro and its partners continue to work to develop a transit project that meets future travel demand between Lake Oswego and Portland, supports local and regional land use plans, and garners public acceptance and community support. The transit project is now preparing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement, studying the potential benefits and impacts…
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Climate Change Battle of the PACs at Metro
Read this very carefully. On Thursday, JPACT will consider conflicting Climate Change amendments to the Regional Transportation Plan from MPAC and TPAC. The attached memo (PDF, 143K) makes this even more confusing, but fundamentally the folks on the Metro Policy Advisory Committee, which is focused on land use and community building have proposed a more…
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Manipulating Citizen Input and Free Speech at the CRC Meeting
Citizens signing up to testify at this morning’s Project Sponsors Council meeting for the Columbia River Crossing were told that 10-15 names would be selected at random to testify in the limited time available. This evoked loud protest at the start of the meeting and co-chair Henry Hewitt announced that everyone who signed up would…
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Adams and Bragdon Call for CRC Slowdown
They issued a joint statement late on Thursday, including: A change in direction is needed for the Columbia River Crossing Project to be successfully accomplished. The current proposal is mired in financial challenges, and the region risks missing critical federal deadlines unless we change course. The project refinement recommendation before the PSC would defer or…
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Crunch Time for CRC on Friday
Friday is D-day! This from the Coalition for a Livable Future: Protest and Testify at the CRC Project Sponsors’ Council meeting When: Fri, Dec 4 9:30 am – action before the meeting 10am – public testimony Where: Port of Portland 121 NW Everett St, Portland Background Cuts have been made to the Columbia River Crossing…