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Greening the CRC
The latest diversion from the climate change impacts of a 12-lane bridge? Wind turbines.
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Top CRC Planner Gets Promotion
The Daily Journal of Commerce is reporting that Jay Lyman, who led the consultant team for the draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Columbia River Crossing, has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer at his firm, David Evans and Associates. While I fundamentally disagree with many of the assumptions in the CRC planning, I found…
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Bridge Backers Organize
The Oregonian reports today that supporters of the Columbia River Crossing have organized the “Columbia River Crossing Coalition“, hiring high-power PR firm Gard Communications to manage the effort. This appears to be aimed at attracting Federal stimulus dollars to the project, since no significant local funding appears to be materializing (Governor Kulongoski only penciled in…
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CRC Peer Review Unlikely to Convince Skeptics
Saturday’s Oregon reports on the presentation of a peer review panel of “leading traffic forecasters from Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas and Sacramento”. The panel’s conclusion: A bridge with double the current number of lanes would have “minimal” impact on growth, the panel concluded, even though the project would nearly eliminate the evening rush-hour for commuters from…
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Earl: CRC is a Metaphor
Speaking tonight at the Portland Spaces/City Club “Bright Lights” event, Earl Blumenauer said the the Columbia River Crossing was a metaphor for the lack of consensus for a transportation vision in our region, comparing it to “the desire for an eight-lane freeway from I-205 to Highway 26 that would turn I-205 into a parking lot…