Portland Transport

Category: Projects

  • Mark Your Calendars

    Updated: 3/6/09 It’s official. Original Post: 3/5/09 Circle tomorrow’s date. It may go down as the day Portland significantly tarnished its green cred. The Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council will almost certainly vote to approve a 12-lane footprint for the bridge, while expressing conceptual agreement for a bi-state governance structure that will manage performance…

  • Portland to Fund Sellwood?

    Update: I mis-labeled the meeting below and have corrected it. As one reader wrote to us “You guys have to cover this”. This being the idea that the City of Portland should kick in some of its transportation funds, to the tune of $8M per year, to generate much of the local match for the…

  • CRC: Build it Big, Then Manage it?

    Coverage of the new ‘bi-state’ compromise on the Columbia River Crossing in the Oregonian, along with an editorial by the Mayors of Portland and Vancouver. This one is going to take a LOT of trust.

  • Loaded Orygun: Driver Self-Interest and the CRC

    Loaded Orygun has an interesting post today which delves into some counter-intuitive theories about driver behavior, including how increasing capacity can lead to increased congestion, even at times when other variables like demand are maintained. It then goes on to speculate about the potential connection of those theories to the impacts of the CRC proposal.…

  • Sellwood Community Breathes a Sigh of Relief

    Saturday’s Oregonian (annoyingly, the article does not appear to be on OregonLive) reports that the steering committee of politicos overseeing the Sellwood Bridge project agreed with the citizens committee and affirmed the choice of a two-lane replacement bridge, compatible with the street network in Sellwood.