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CRC and Sprawl
The Oregonian looks at the “sprawl angle” of the Columbia River Crossing: As Metro Council president David Bragdon sees it, the challenge is how to build a bridge “without 100,000 people thinking they can move to Battle Ground.”
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Rojo de Steffey Calls for Sellwood Closure
Today’s Oregonian quotes County Commissioner Maria Rojo de Steffey calling for closing the Sellwood Bridge: “I’m ready now to close it,” Rojo de Steffey said. “On my watch I don’t want to be responsible if it goes down.” Would closing the bridge be good policy, or just a play for changing the funding politics?
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Streetcar System Plan Workshops in April
News from the Portland Office of Transportation Streetcar System Plan: Are you interested in learning more about the streetcars in Portland? How about a streetcar corridor in your community? In either case, come to the Streetcar System Plan Workshop in your district. The outcome of these meetings will be a community decision about whether to…
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CRC Point/Counter-Point
In the last few weeks we’ve seen dueling op-eds on the Columbia River Crossing project: In support: Burkholder, Achterman, Hansen Replacing the Interstate 5 bridges over the Columbia River will be the single largest public works project in Oregon history. Getting to where we are today has taken the better part of a decade, tens…
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CRC Project Update
The latest informational update from the CRC mentions that the governors of both of the affected states have officially committed to building a new bridge across the Columbia. Additionally, the DEIS will be released in March on a date yet to be determined and, at the bottom of this post, some information and links about…