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Fitting the Sellwood Pieces Together
An article in Friday’s Trib (“Span plan’s a puzzle“) demonstrates the complexities of planning this bridge. Each option is going to make someone unhappy based on the properties it’s going to disrupt. And that’s before we even worry about two lanes versus four…
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A shift in plans for Milwaukie Light Rail?
According to today’s Clackamas Review article, a petition signed by hundreds of local residents (including the Mayor’s wife) has encouraged the inclusion of an alternate route proposal in the SDEIS process. The new route would run closer to the heart of downtown Milwaukie, perhaps split along Main St. and SE McLoughlin Blvd. The article states…
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A Slower RTP
JPACT has voted to slow down the process for the Regional Transportation Plan update. Instead of being adopted at the end of 2007, the planning will go through June 2008. In general this is good news, allowing more time for scenario development and modeling (we were at real risk of being forced to pick from…
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Milwaukie LRT Crossing Options
At a recent Streetcar meeting, we got a briefing on the crossing options (PDF, 3.4M) under consideration for the Milwaukie LRT EIS process. The set to be studies in the EIS will be narrowed soon (indications favor the middle two), so weigh in soon if you have an opinion. Here’s the project page at Metro.
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CRC Update – May
The Columbia River Crossing task force will not meet in May, in fact their June meeting is the only one currently scheduled (what will they be doing all fall?). Here’s the update from the project staff: The Columbia River Crossing Task Force will hold its next meeting on June 26 in Portland to receive a…