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Report: Traffic projections ‘invalidate the transportation rationale for the CRC’

Tolls and traffic projections for the CRC project raise new questions.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Economist Joe Cortright says new traffic projections from a previously undisclosed report reveals an inconvenient truth about the Columbia River Crossing project. The plan to toll the existing I-5 bridge span (starting in 2016) would lead to nearly 50,000 people per … Read more

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Noted economist says “flawed” metric leads to highway spending, sprawl

Economist Joe Cortright.(Photo © J. Maus) Joe Cortright, an economist with Impresa Inc. and the senior policy advisor for urban planning think tank CEO for Cities, says engineers and planners have dumped billions of dollars into sprawl-inducing roads and highways in part based on a “deeply flawed metric” that’s been an industry standard for 25 … Read more

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