News Dec 10, 2009 at 4:00 am

Money, Environmental and Political Worries Halt Big Bridge

photo by Matt Davis

Comments

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Well done on the story, Sarah. I'm happy to see the current project come to a halt. I think it gave Oregon very little at an enormous cost.

I hope that any new bridge (and there will be one eventually) is financed following a fundamental principle that commuters pay their own way. It would be a travesty if Portland, with its huge transportation needs, subsidized the ability of Clark County to sprawl.

The freight needs are real, though the scope of a compromise might include looking at trains for long haul freight. Additionally, from the standpoint of the economic stimulus that public works projects provide, there are any number of projects that can keep people working.

Sarah, keep up the great work of shining a light on what's going on here.
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"Avoiding a straight up-or-down vote on the new bridge, which would certainly have split the powerful council"

Yeah, split it 8-to-2. Not much of a split. "Oh no, we only have 80% of the vote on our side!" Portland's dogmatic obstructionism is childish and embarrassing. Adams and Bragdon are air heads.
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Blabby, I don't get you... you try and make decent arguments but then you (again) devolve into irrelevant name-calling, and end up living up to your own name. Use the brain before blabbing, man!
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Paul, you are a poo face.
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Here's a suggestion Paul. Prior to criticizing some one else and their comment, perhaps you should make one of your own. Blabby's comment has substance, whether you agree with it or not. Yours is simply an insult, and doesn't add anything substantive at all.

The motivation behind blocking the construction of this thing is as elusive as the constituent properties of the groups calling for the ban. "Obrstructionism", in-frickin'-deed. Protest for the sake of protest, environment for the sake of the environment. Kids in this country want so badly to relive the 60s they'll create problems out of thin-air just to have their silly, ineffectual, homogenizing, denigrating, quasiprotest-cum-love-ins, and score 'digits from that cute hippie guy or gal. Pathetic if it weren't for the fact they are pricing me out of a car, crushing the economy I need to get out of unemployment; and all for the pics and the memories. Kumbaya fools. Red is cherry, right, or is that strawberry I always forget?

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