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Capitol Highway project planning complete, except for funding Capitol Highway street plan illustration - Capitol Highway and Lobelia facing North. (Courtesy Portland Bureau of Transportation) The Capitol Highway improvement project is essentially complete. In December a Citizen Advisory Committee unanimously approved a program of improvements designed to provide better and safer car, bike and pedestrian movement along Southwest Capitol Highway between Multnomah Boulevard and Taylors Ferry Road. Now all that is needed is the money to make it all real. The most recent design calls for one 11-foot and one 12-foot travel lane for cars, a six-foot bike lane on each side, two six-foot pedestrian paths, and two 4.5-foot “stormwater furnishing zones” with trees and ... [Read full story]
Will a streetcar from Portland to Lake Oswego cost $458 million? Portland Streetcar stops at Gibbs Street in the South Waterfront neighborhood. (flickr file photo courtesy of pchurch) Slogging through the suddenly cost-sensitive alternatives before them, a Citizen Advisory Committee studying the proposed Lake Oswego to Portland transit project seemed last month to have agreed on one thing: doing nothing is not a viable option. Under study since 2007, and a focus of debate among the affected South Portland, Dunthorpe and Lake Oswego communities, the proposed transit project suddenly received wider attention last month with the publication of the required Draft Environmental Impact Statement. This showed the construction costs of the two options now under ... [Read full story]
Design commission approves new light rail bridge design Conceptual images of the new Portland to Milwaukie light rail bridge. (TriMet) The Portland Design Commission last month unanimously approved a new Willamette River bridge that will carry the proposed Portland to Milwaukie light rail line. The bridge is a key part of the $1.5 billion project. Starting at the current Green Line terminus at Portland State University, the line will travel through the South Waterfront to Southwest Sherman Street, cross to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, and travel through inner southeast Portland and end up in downtown Milwaukie in Clackamas County. At a session two months before, the Commission had asked for minor ... [Read full story]
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