Chief
05-13-2008, 05:54 AM
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/05/05132008_City-urged-to-support-new-bridge-with-light-rail-to-Clark-College.cfm
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
By JEFFREY MIZE, Columbian staff writer
Build a new Interstate 5 bridge, bring light rail across the Columbia River and end the line along the freeway’s east side near Clark College.
Vancouver transportation officials made that recommendation to the city council Monday.
It is believed to be the first time a local government in the Portland-Vancouver region has received a recommendation for what could be a $4.1 billion package of bridge, highway and transit improvements.
“This is not a council position,” said Thayer Rorabaugh, Vancouver’s transportation manager. “(But) we believe this is the direction the city ought to be going.”
The city council took no action Monday. A public hearing tentatively has been scheduled for June 30, with the council scheduled to vote July 7 on what bridge planners call a “locally preferred alternative.”
Rorabaugh and Matt Ransom, city transportation planning manager, raced through a series of reasons for their recommendation during a 45-minute presentation that left little time for questions and no time for council discussion.
Transportation planners will return for a full two-hour work session with the council at 4 p.m. June 2.
**SCHNIPP**
I don't know about you, but I haven't even finished reading the entire DEIS, and already we have this. Not surprizingly, it was Thayer Rorabaugh giving this hurried presentation while taking no questions...
This would be a good time to start loading the guns of a few City Council Critters, and see if they can get some answers at that workshop. I think we'll start a new thread for that...
cewl
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
By JEFFREY MIZE, Columbian staff writer
Build a new Interstate 5 bridge, bring light rail across the Columbia River and end the line along the freeway’s east side near Clark College.
Vancouver transportation officials made that recommendation to the city council Monday.
It is believed to be the first time a local government in the Portland-Vancouver region has received a recommendation for what could be a $4.1 billion package of bridge, highway and transit improvements.
“This is not a council position,” said Thayer Rorabaugh, Vancouver’s transportation manager. “(But) we believe this is the direction the city ought to be going.”
The city council took no action Monday. A public hearing tentatively has been scheduled for June 30, with the council scheduled to vote July 7 on what bridge planners call a “locally preferred alternative.”
Rorabaugh and Matt Ransom, city transportation planning manager, raced through a series of reasons for their recommendation during a 45-minute presentation that left little time for questions and no time for council discussion.
Transportation planners will return for a full two-hour work session with the council at 4 p.m. June 2.
**SCHNIPP**
I don't know about you, but I haven't even finished reading the entire DEIS, and already we have this. Not surprizingly, it was Thayer Rorabaugh giving this hurried presentation while taking no questions...
This would be a good time to start loading the guns of a few City Council Critters, and see if they can get some answers at that workshop. I think we'll start a new thread for that...
cewl