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Keep up the CRC Pressure
While the Columbia River Crossing project is under pressure from any number of angles, we can’t let up. Please be an active voice in several upcoming open houses: June Open Houses: Tuesday, June 23, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.: Jantzen Beach SuperCenter, Community Room (across from food court), 1405 N. Jantzen Beach Center, Portland Wednesday,…
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A Good Time Was Had By All
Transportation Planner, Activist, Chanteuse and sometimes Portland Transport contributor Ellen Vanderslice performing at Arbor Lodge Park as part of Sunday Parkways 2009 The Good Kind of Congestion Fun for All Ages Since the weather forecast suggested showers might show in the early afternoon, my partner and I headed out early to the first Sunday Parkways…
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House, Administration at Odds on Reauthorization
I’ve been off the air for a bit due to computer problems, and while I was AWOL quite a conflict has emerged around the every-six-years reauthorization of the Federal transportaton program. While Chairman Oberstar was preparing to release his outline for the bill, Secretary LaHood announced that the administration would prefer to extend the current…
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Transit Equity Coming?
Congressman (and Transportation Chair) Jim Oberstar will release a white paper on Thursday outlining his plan for the next surface transportation reauthorization bill. One issue that many transit advocates are hoping for is ‘transit equity’, the idea that the disparity between Federal match for highways (80-90%) and match for transit projects (50-60%, usually 50%) might…
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What the Transit Rider’s Union SHOULD be Focusing On
The current murmur is that the Milwaukie Light Rail project is going to need about a $50M injection of capital funding (if anyone has a draft funding plan document, please share it) to complete the local match, which TriMet plans to provide by bonding future payroll tax revenue. Depending on Interest rates, that means something…