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Staff Cops to $6B Price Tag for CRC
Jim Redden has a piece in the Trib this morning indicating that by the time you roll in all the interchange improvements, we may well be looking at $6B for the Columbia River Crossing. It’s kind of ironic that the entire gap in funding for the Regional Transportation Plan is $6B, and we’re looking at…
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Legislative CRC Meeting Today
A meeting I had not heard of, passed along courtesy of Jim Karlock. Thanks, Jim! Joint Meeting of the Washington Senate Transportation Committee and the Oregon Senate Business, Transportation, and Workforce Development Committee Friday, February 16, 2007 11:30am – 2pm Port of Portland Building 121 NW Everett Portland, OR AGENDA Welcoming Remarks Senator Rick Metsger…
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Advanced Topics in Congestion
At the last TPAC workshop on the Regional Transportation Plan update, Metro presented their research on roadway conditions (freeways and arterials). There are some very interesting ways to visualize the situation. [Note: click on any slide to see a larger (and clearer) version.] A table showing what portion of our freeway and arterial network is…
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Federal Congestion Policy
At a recent meeting of Commissioner Adams transportation operations group, we had a presentation from an FHWA (Federal Highway Administration) official on USDOT initiatives on congestion. There are four initiatives: Corridors of the Future Urban Partnership Agreements Value Pricing Pilot Program Intelligent Transportation System Operational Tests Corridors of the future is pretty much a capacity…