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Light Rail’s Next Stop: Oregon City?
Putting aside the ongoing CRC discussion for a few minutes, an article in Thursday’s Oregonian briefly mentioned that the city of Oregon City has passed a resolution endorsing the Portland-Milwaukie light-rail line LPA that was chosen by the steering committee. The resolution supports the Porter-Sherman Willamette River crossing, the Tillamook Branch alignment in Milwaukie and…
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EPA Doesn’t Think Much of CRC Either
From the Oregonian: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds that bridge planners did not adequately examine the potential for a bridge to induce sprawl, increase pollution and contaminate an aquifer that supplies Vancouver and Clark County’s drinking water. Among other things, the DEIS apparently fails to analyze whether they might be driving pilings into (and…
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U.S. Maglev System One Step Closer
Ron Swaren is a regular commenter on Portland Transport. Michael Barkoviak – June 9, 2008 5:50 AM “President Bush signed a transportation bill that will help fund a high speed maglev train between Disneyland and Las Vegas. The initial $45M investment will be used for environmental studies to evaluate construction impact on one portion of…
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Report Predicts ‘Mass Exodus of Vehicles off America’s Highways’
Via Planetizen: Over the next four years, we are likely to witness the greatest mass exodus of vehicles off America’s highways in history. By 2012, there should be some 10 million fewer vehicles on American roadways than there are today—a decline that dwarfs all previous adjustments including those during the two OPEC oil shocks (see…