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TriMet Responds on Bridge Design
TriMet spokesperson Mary Fetsch e-mailed me a few minutes ago with the photos you see here (click on the photos to view full-size, the thumbnails don’t really do them justice) and the following statement: Chris: We have selected a bridge architect with more than 40 years experience working on signature bridges including cable-stayed , suspension…
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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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Total Lack of Bridge Imagination Continues to Plague Region
As if the box-girder Columbia River Crossing was not bad enough, Portland Architecture and several other blogs are reporting that TriMet will ignore the elegant modified cable-stay design by international designer Miguel Rosales in favor of a cheap and generic cable-stay alternative. Maybe while Fred is in Australia he can take a look at the…