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Planning Commission Disses the Couplet
Because I was at the CRC task force last night, I missed the Planning Commission work session on the Burnside/Couch couplet, but here’s the update I got from a fellow neighborhood activist: The motion made by Don Hanson and carried in a 3-1 vote (and 1 abstention) made the following recommendations to: not move forward…
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Agreeing with ODOT
ODOT Region 1 director Jason Tell (mislabled James Tell in the print edition) has an opinion piece in Friday’s Trib bemoaning the state of transportation funding here in Oregon. While I don’t always agree with ODOT about modernization (i.e., new capacity) projects (hightlighed in an article in the same issue: “Caution: bump in road“), Jason…
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Rex in a Box?
A mildly positive outcome from last night’s Columbia River Crossing task force meeting. After about an hour of testimony, almost all of it from advocates for more options going into the DEIS process, the task force got down to the real business – deciding whether to add a fourth option to the alternatives. Rex Burkholder…
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Avoiding Icons
I’ve been reading the Eddington report, a fascinating piece of research and advice to the government of the UK. I’ll be posting on it in more detail later in the week, but I can’t help highlighting one conclusion that seems very much on point for this afternoon’s decision: The risk is that transport policy can…