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Sellwood Bridge Stays in the News
The Trib begins looking at the interchange designs on either side of the river, while the Business Journal focuses on funding (unfortunately the full version of the online article requires a subscription – I read the old media version at the library). The speculation is that we may get the Feds to cough up half…
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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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Putting the Ferry Back in Taylors Ferry
Jim Howell of AORTA passed on this proposal they have forwarded to the Sellwood Bridge task force. April 16, 2007 To: Sellwood Bridge Citizen Task Force and Policy Advisory Group From: Jim Howell Re: Bridge Concepts It might be seven to ten years before the Sellwood Bridge is repaired or rebuilt. In the meantime traffic…
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Sellwood Properties at Risk?
It would appear that whatever alternative gets chosen for the Sellwood Bridge, some private property must be taken and buildings removed.
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Updated: Purposefully Approaching Sellwood
Update: 11/15/06 The Daily Journal of Commerce weighs in with coverage today. Original Post: 11/14/06 Whenever a project is going to have a Federal funding component, there is typically a two-tier governance structure for the project. A citizen/stakeholder committee will work through the details, making recommendations to a steering committee, which is composed of elected…