Quoted in Willamette Week: State lawmakers’ flagging interest in increasing the gas tax next year is driving a hole in a proposed funding plan for the $4.2 billion Columbia River Crossing Project (see “Bridge Over the River Why,” WW, May 21, 2008). A proposed 14-cent-per-gallon gas tax hike had set aside 2 cents for the…

The Governors of Oregon and Washington have appointed a ten-member advisory panel to represent the “project sponsors” for the Columbia River Crossing. While everyone involved is arguing that consensus is required among the group, the transportation commissions and legislatures of the two states have final decision authority. No big surprises in the membership, but perhaps…

Concerns voiced by the National Marine Fisheries Service about the Columbia River Crossing: Construction impacts Increased run-off from 40 acres of concrete Risk that sprawling development enabled by the bridge will impact creeks that fish depend on Full story in the Oregonian.

We blogged about it last month, but Sunday’s O paints the stark contrast between attitudes about tolling the Columbia River Crossing on the Oregon side and on the Washington side. Increasingly I’m hearing the buzz that the state legislatures may not be enthusiastic about putting gas tax dollars into the CRC, which would mean two…

Let’s welcome Community Health Priorities to the local blogosphere…