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Toasting the CRC on Thursday
Hey, I’m participating in a Bus Project/1000 Friends event on Thursday, highlighting better things we could do for the same price as the Columbia River Crossing. I hope I’ll see some friendly Portland Transport faces there! Brewhaha and CRC Letter-Writing at Roots on May 7 Brewhaha! Let’s Make a Deal, Portland! Roots Organic Brewery, 1520…
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CRC Sponsors Council to Take Up Tolling
From the press release: Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council meets May 4 VANCOUVER – The Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council will begin a discussion of tolling at its next meeting on Monday, May 4. The agenda includes an update on recent tolling legislation, a background presentation and discussion of lessons learned from tolling…
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Could it be? Someone Finally Ready to Say NO to CRC
The Portland Mercury is blogging that the the $30M in the Governor’s Transportation Package for continued Columbia River Crossing planning is under attachattack in the Legislature. Be still my heart…
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Where’s Waldo? Traffic Forecast Inflation
There’s a great post on World Streets today about ways to inflate traffic forecasts (primarily to boost projections of toll revenue, but also potentially to justify projects). Today’s question: how many of these can you find in the Columbia River Crossing Draft Environmental Impact Statement?
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Duin Takes on CRC Design
Steve Duin’s Thursday column in the O blasts the Columbia River Crossing design. Among other things he quotes members of the project design advisory committee who have figured out that like other citizens trying to influence the project, they’re there for window dressing, not to actually change the DOTs’ agenda: Jeff Stuhr at Holst Architecture…