Comments On: Twelve Lanes of Hot Air: State Casts Doubt over Columbia Bridge Funding by Matt Davis http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2009/04/28/twelve-lanes-of-hot-air-state-casts-doubt-over-columbia-bridge-funding Comments On: Twelve Lanes of Hot Air: State Casts Doubt over Columbia Bridge Funding by Matt Davis en-us Copyright 2009 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:15:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Re: Twelve Lanes of Hot Air: State Casts Doubt over Columbia Bridge Funding]]> Posted by motomagik]]> Mon, 04 May 2009 10:40:40 -0700 Portland Mercury <![CDATA[Re: Twelve Lanes of Hot Air: State Casts Doubt over Columbia Bridge Funding]]>
for anyone who has not seen it, AORTA, the Association of Oregon Rail and Transit Advocates, has a pretty sweet plan that solves most of the problembs the curent CRC plan tries to solve, and cheaper/better.

I'm not convinced that any project will do us better, but if they are gonna build something i think this idea is a vast improvement: www.aortarail.org
Posted by revphil]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:28:14 -0700 Portland Mercury <![CDATA[Re: Twelve Lanes of Hot Air: State Casts Doubt over Columbia Bridge Funding]]>
Both sides of what, pray tell?
Posted by GLV]]> Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:24:41 -0700 Portland Mercury <![CDATA[Re: Twelve Lanes of Hot Air: State Casts Doubt over Columbia Bridge Funding]]>
Methinks the answer is more roads/highway construction. WTF is the difference? Build a unsustainable bridge in a few years time or build a how bunch of highways today that lead to a bottleneck at the Columbia?

While it's sexy (and easy) to focus on the CRC real reporting would entail a detail look at what these "infrastructure" jobs are in Oregon this summer from both the state and stimulus bill. Are we just building more lanes on our highways? If so WTF's the point if they run into the bottleneck of the Interstate bridge. Where is the agitation to have those projects fund alternative transportation?

If you want to do something TODAY for alt transit start lobbying for Obama bucks to go to that and not highway projects.
Posted by Finnegan]]> Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:55:43 -0700 Portland Mercury <![CDATA[Re: Twelve Lanes of Hot Air: State Casts Doubt over Columbia Bridge Funding]]>
And then I start leaving "8 lanes, heavy tolling, light-rail, bikes, peds" messages with his staff.
Posted by Oregometry]]> Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:24:01 -0700 Portland Mercury <![CDATA[Re: Twelve Lanes of Hot Air: State Casts Doubt over Columbia Bridge Funding]]> Posted by econoline]]> Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:16:16 -0700 Portland Mercury