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on Metro Prez Heads to NYC
How is that this Region's public investment for the future is a $4 billion, 5-mile superhighway to sprawling Clark County? That is, the CRC a project more expensive than the entire 50-mile light rail system that will add tens of thousands of additional car trips along with pollution, greenhouse gases, while chewing up rural land.
How did this happen?
posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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on Metro Prez Heads to NYC
How do we fix the CRC?
posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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on The Crossing at a Crossroads
I have driven the entire length of I 5 several times. I doubt the that the Columbia bridge makes the top ten list for slow points. That whole Mexico-Canada economic lifeline schtick is pretty funny.
posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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on The Crossing at a Crossroads
As long as the CRC is run by highway engineers, thoughtful ideas like this will not be heard.
posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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on The Crossing at a Crossroads
Yes, yes, yes, and yes. There has been a focused effort from the start of the CRC to manage how people look at it. It is a super highway project that happens to include a bridge. A new super freeway is not going to improve our lives.
posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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on The Crossing at a Crossroads
The thing that may tweak Oregonians a bit is that Clark County has slack planning (i.e. encourages sprawl) and, of course, no income tax. So perhaps people move over there to enjoy cheap housing and sheltered income while demanding a big, free bridge to the sales-tax-free big box stores on Hayden Island.
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on The Crossing at a Crossroads
Borrowing billions to build a 10-12 lane super highway to the most sprawling suburbs in the area to encourage a 20-century unsustainable lifestyle is silly. Plugging a 10-lane super highway into a six lane connection at the rose quarter is foolish. Fighting to add 1.5 miles of light rail to a city that does not want it is embarrassing.
This is Portland Oregon; we're suppose to be transportation and planning leaders, not clowns.
According to CRC engineers the bridge can be repaired for 5% of the project costs. Let's do that and move on.
posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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on Facebook Comes to Prineville
True, but then again we all continue to cheer for the Blazers like we'll go to the finals...it's our delusional nature
posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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on Facebook Comes to Prineville
I appreciate the positive attitude and the mini victory (35 jobs), but I would rather Oregon investment in college education for a better future.
posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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on Facebook Comes to Prineville
This is pathetic -- several days of media hoopla over the creation of 35 jobs -- which were lured here with tax breaks and cheap electricity made possible by the dams that have decimated our salmon runs.
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