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CRC Wheels Keep Turning
Project Sponsors Council conducts joint work session with local agency staff on April 23 VANCOUVER – The Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council will hold a public work session with local partner agency staff at its April 23 meeting. The work session will be held 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Southwest Region office…
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Post-Motordom Thursday Night
University of Oregon Graduate Forum Portland Urban Architecture Program Gordon Price Director, Simon Fraser University Urban Center and Former City Council Member, City of Vancouver, British Columbia “Vancouver and the Post-Motordom City” Lecture. Thursday April 22, 7:00 PM. Room 142, University of Oregon Portland Center. 70 NW Couch Street Follow-up Seminar. Friday April 23, 9:00…
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Continuing to Invest in our Local Streetcar Manufacturing Capacity
The good news this morning is that the Federal Transit Administration has awarded $2.4M to TriMet (most of it will eventually flow to Oregon Iron Works) for the purpose of using our prototype streetcar to investigate and develop: A U.S.-made (Rockwell) propulsion system Battery technology that would allow the vehicle to operate for some distance…
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From the CRC Watch
Local news on the Columbia River Crossing: International Design Panel (one the project didn’t pay for) disses the project. I had a chance to listen to the audio today, and this is the most cogent critique of the absolute failure of imagination and leadership that this bridge is. A must listen – every minute of…