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CRC Offers Up Interchanges
Testifying before the Legislature, representatives of the Columbia River Crossing Project offered up $650M of savings by delaying freeway interchange improvements at Marine Drive, Fourth Plain, Mill Plain and SR500. Point of Order – the FEIS does not contain a phasing plan. What does the project need to do under the NEPA process to introduce…
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How Active Are Our Mayoral Candidates?
The PSU Planning Club is going to help us find out, with a candidate forum specifically on active transportation issues: Local Motion: Portland Mayoral Candidates Discuss Active Transportation at Portland State University What: A Portland Mayoral Candidates Forum on Active Transportation Who: Mayoral Candidates: Eileen Brady, Charlie Hales, and Jefferson Smith Emcees: Lawrence Wallack, Dean…
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Community opposition and infrastructure projects
A major issue with large-scale infrastructure projects, such as highways or rail transit lines, is that frequently they face community opposition. Depending on which side of the fence one sits on a particular project, such opposition can either consist of heroic defenders of community values fighting valiantly against vested interests and the desctruction of their…
