Portland Transport

Category: Projects

  • Sellwood Funding Coming Together?

    The Multnomah County Commission is getting read to add $19 to your auto registration fee and apparently Clackamas County will follow with $5. Coupled with the City of Portland diverting some of the increase in gas tax revenue it will see from the Legislature’s transportation package, will this be enough to get the Sellwood Bridge…

  • Whistling Past the Graveyard

    Columbia River Crossing project sponsors have pretty much admitted that the current project scope is unfundable, but that hasn’t stopped a stakeholder committee from agreeing on an interchange design for Marine Drive. Interchanges represent one of the major cost components for the project.

  • CRC Design Goes from Iconic to “Modest,” “Efficient”

    Funny how all the aspirations for the Columbia River Crossing keep shrinking, except of course moving lots of cars…

  • Sam Backs Away from 12 Lanes on CRC

    Update: here’s the full text of Sam’s statement. The Oregonian is reporting that Portland Mayor Sam Adams will release a statement today withdrawing his support for a 12-lane Columbia River Crossing configuration. Meanwhile, members of the local project sponsors council are making clear that the cost of the project must be reduced. “What they’ve cooked…

  • George Orwell Would be Proud

    Apparently the Columbia River Crossing is a “A Model for Collaboration and Environmental Stewardship“. What planet does the FHWA live on?