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Headed for a CRC Toll Policy Show Down?
As expected, the SW Washington Regional Transportation Commission became the final local government to endorse the Columbia River Crossing Locally Preferred Alternative. But… In their endorsement they included a recommendation that tolling ONLY be used to pay for construction, NOT as a demand management tool. This puts the RTC squarely opposite the recommendation on Portland…
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Last Vote on CRC LPA
There’s one more body that has yet to vote on the Columbia River Crossing Locally Preferred Alternative. If you want to get your licks in one last time: The Southwest Washington RTC meets on July 22, at 4 pm at Clark County Public Service Center, 1300 W. Franklin, 6th Floor, Vancouver, WA. Also you can…
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Glenn Jackson’s Ghost Haunts CRC
A couple of local architects want to make sure the Columbia River Crossing doesn’t turn into another flat slab bridge. “We’re not trying to derail the project,” McCulloch said in an interview. “We think it should be pursued. The operative word is ‘enriching’ the process.” Renderings of Columbia River Crossing show what McCulloch calls a…
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EPA Doesn’t Think Much of CRC Either
From the Oregonian: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds that bridge planners did not adequately examine the potential for a bridge to induce sprawl, increase pollution and contaminate an aquifer that supplies Vancouver and Clark County’s drinking water. Among other things, the DEIS apparently fails to analyze whether they might be driving pilings into (and…
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Report Predicts ‘Mass Exodus of Vehicles off America’s Highways’
Via Planetizen: Over the next four years, we are likely to witness the greatest mass exodus of vehicles off America’s highways in history. By 2012, there should be some 10 million fewer vehicles on American roadways than there are today—a decline that dwarfs all previous adjustments including those during the two OPEC oil shocks (see…