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Sellwood Funding Coming Together?
The Multnomah County Commission is getting read to add $19 to your auto registration fee and apparently Clackamas County will follow with $5. Coupled with the City of Portland diverting some of the increase in gas tax revenue it will see from the Legislature’s transportation package, will this be enough to get the Sellwood Bridge…
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Looking for Change Under the Cushions
The Daily Journal of Commerce reports on the search for funding for the Sellwood Bridge. If ever there were a place where tolling made sense…
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What’s that About the Sellwood?
An alert reader pointed us to this section of HB 2001, the much-discussed transportation bill. Section 40 creates the ability for Multnomah and/or Clackamas counties to adopt registration feeds to help pay for the bridge. But there’s an interesting twist (in bold below): SECTION 40. ORS 801.041 is amended to read: 801.041. The following apply…
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Portland to Fund Sellwood?
Update: I mis-labeled the meeting below and have corrected it. As one reader wrote to us “You guys have to cover this”. This being the idea that the City of Portland should kick in some of its transportation funds, to the tune of $8M per year, to generate much of the local match for the…
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Sellwood Community Breathes a Sigh of Relief
Saturday’s Oregonian (annoyingly, the article does not appear to be on OregonLive) reports that the steering committee of politicos overseeing the Sellwood Bridge project agreed with the citizens committee and affirmed the choice of a two-lane replacement bridge, compatible with the street network in Sellwood.