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CRC at Metro Again this Week
This week the Metro Council takes up the issue of authorizing President Tom Hughes to sign the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Columbia River Crossing project. They’ll discuss this at a work session on Tuesday and Council meeting on Thursday. This is Metro’s last major sign off on the project.
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The Case for Stop Consolidation
Zef Wagner is recently relocated from Seattle to Portland and will be contributing occasionally and sharing his fresh-eyed perspective of Portland – Chris The Problem Most people take it as a given that local bus service is slow and often unreliable, while light rail is fast and very reliable. This is great news for those…
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Always Read the Fine Print: CRC Edition
Last week we mentioned that the Columbia River Crossing had lowered its cost estimate. Our correspondent Joe Cortright read the fine print on the document involved (the Cost Estimate Validation Report – PDF, 1M) and found a few interesting tidbits: Why do they put this out on a Friday afternoon, the slowest news period of…