Comments on: Why I oppose the Columbia River Crossing

By: revphil

revphil — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:47:17 +0000

i like it! in fact i stole it! http://smarterbridge.blogspot.com/2009/05/who-benefits.html

By: See this before

See this before — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:42:37 +0000

I agree with what you are saying. Bigger highways are madness. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs where we had a knot of highway that consistently tied up traffic. Just like the CRC plan, developers were sure more lanes would help. They were right for about a month or two. Then it went right back to the exact same commute time as before. If you add in the two plus years of traffic disruption to build it, those two months don’t even count!

4.2 Billion dollars is a whole lot of money for something that will not work. One mile from that bridge on the Portland side the highway goes to two lanes one-way plus a car pool lane for a total of three lanes. Engineers could expand the bridge to 10 lanes each way and you’d arrive at the same place, bumper to bumper traffic on and off the bridge.

By: b.ton

b.ton — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:02:34 +0000

you should send this to the newspapers in town, this needs to be read by the general public! i think this is enough info to cut the strings of these puppets running around in favor of the crc who don’t even know why they’re in line with such a ludicrous plan in the first place!

assuming they can actually read for themselves.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:36:35 +0000

Preaching to the choir, indeed! More people need to hear this point of view and I could not have put it more bluntly.

By: Surlyben

Surlyben — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:25:14 +0000

Well, hell, you’ve convinced me. Although I do doubt that there will be less driving and less population in the future, at least in this country…