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Monday, June 21, 2010
News Oh Snap! Pedestrian Group Retracts Support of CRC
Posted by Sarah Mirk on Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:03 AM
Another day, another crucial group withdrawing its support of the current Columbia River Crossing (CRC) project. Today it's the Portland Pedestrian Advisory Council, a group of pedestrian and livability advocates who were pulled together by Portland city staff to make recommendations on the region's largest transportation project, the $3 billion bridge to Vancouver.
The council originally signed off on the bridge design, but a letter sent on June 18th (pdf) to CRC staff rescinds that support. Here's a line from the biting letter:
By the end of 2009, with congressional demands to reduce cost, the now oxymoronic “Locally Preferred Alternative” or cost cut LPA was presented with shocking disregard for the needs of cyclists and pedestrians that had been carefully integrated into earlier designs. The 12-lane highway bridge posing as a 10-lane bridge was preserved.
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance rescinded its support for the project last September, two weeks before Mayor Sam Adams did the same, followed by three other local leaders in January.
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The PAC is a long-standing city advisory committee, not a committee that was convened just for this project. For more info, see
http://www.portlandonline.com/transportati…
Anne McL
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