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Updated: A Transportation Bill for Yamhill County
Updated: 5/22/09 Track Joe’s latest updates as the bill is amended. Original Post: 5/21/09 I blogged last night about the alarm bells going off over the transportation bill in the Legislature. Local economist Joe Cortright has done an analysis of the earmarked road projects to look at who benefits, by county. Everyone ready to watch…
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Sellwood Deal Struck in Transportation Bill
Apparently I wasn’t the only one to notice the insanity of both failing to fund the Sellwood Bridge AND removing the ability of the County to introduce a fee for doing so. The Oregonian reports that language has been inserted in the road-centric transportation bill to allow Clackamas and/or Multnomah Counties to have a registration…
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Alarm Bells Going Off Over Auto-Centric State Transportation Package
BTA (which cancelled its ride to Salem in support of the package), 1000 Friends and others have sent out alerts today about HB 2001, the Governor’s transportation package. From the 1000 Friends alert: Unfortunately, the transportation package, House Bill 2001, that recently emerged from behind closed doors has lost its balance – it has become…
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Earl’s Earmarks
Via Jeff Mapes on Politics: A list of Congressman Blumenaur’s transportation earmark requests for our region.
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Update on Transportation at the Legislature
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2009 Transportation Seminar Series Speakers: Olivia Clark (TriMet), Chris Hagerbaumer (Oregon Environmental Council) and Randy Tucker (Metro) Topic: Mid-Session Update on Oregon’s Transportation Legislation When: Thursday, April 2nd, 2009, 8:00am Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204 Description: This seminar is an opportunity…