Even if the coincidence is accidental, it's still cheeky and ironic, don't you think? And dispiriting.
Proposed Alterations to 4D |
@dianadickey88 Six years on that River Crossing Task Force, but this plan *never* proposed or reviewed. TF was waste of time & $$.The enthusiasm for a giant Third Bridge and highway might remind us of other notable "solutions" that turned out terribly wrong...
— Darlene Strozut (@Enstone) April 9, 2013
The other old ads here are pretty amazing too |
This is almost certainly one of them. Don't let the "Third Bridge" solution to traffic and congestion sedate and hypnotize the City and its neighborhoods! The solution here is far worse than the supposed disease. And there are other solutions that better address the legitimate problems.
In the meeting packet are letters. The letters in favor of the bridge misunderstand many things, and are full of assertions and opinions unmoored from the dock of fact and best available information. While there are some matters on which reasonable people can disagree, there are many other claims that are simply not supported by actual conditions and facts. There's too much vague assertion behind the "need" for a giant bridge and highway.
A former City Councilor disparages transit and suggests that it will never be good, and that it is better to spend hundreds of millions on a bridge than to spend tens of millions on transit.
Former Councilor letter (email addresses redacted, highlights added) |
Downtown Business Owner |
Downtown Business Person |
Salem Health thinks that the giant bridge and highway will actually make transit into Salem from the North better! "New Opportunities!" This is a fundamental misapprehension of the nature of the barrier constituted by the Parkway and intensified by a linking bridge and highway and ramp spaghetti. It is also an abdication of their responsibility to promote public health by supporting active transportation.
Salem Health Letter |
At the level of facts, probabilities, and best available information, a giant bridge and highway is the crudest and most expensive approach to a range of actual problems and other annoyances (which may or may not be real problems) that deserve a suite of more sophisticated and less costly solutions.
Write your Councilor and let 'em know it's still a bad and costly idea and that the hearing schedule is too compressed for informed analysis, comment, and discussion. Comments from folks who live in wards 3, 4, 7 and 8 (hilly West Salem and most of South Salem) are especially important.
No 3rd Bridge has the latest and they'll be updating often this weekend.
Councilors
Ward 1 Councilor: Chuck Bennett Email: crbennett@cityofsalem.net Phone: 503-399-7801 Term Expires: December 31, 2016 Address: 555 Liberty St SE, Room 220, Salem OR 97301 | |
Ward 2 Councilor: Laura Tesler Email: ltesler@cityofsalem.net Phone: 503-399-7802 Term Expires: December 31, 2014 Address: 555 Liberty St SE, Room 220, Salem OR 97301 | |
Ward 3 Councilor: Brad Nanke Email: bnanke@cityofsalem.net Phone: 503-399-7803 Term Expires: December 31, 2016 Address: 555 Liberty St SE, Room 220, Salem OR 97301 | |
Ward 4 Councilor: Rich Clausen Email: rclausen@cityofsalem.net Phone: 503-399-7804 Term Expires: December 31, 2014 Address: 555 Liberty St SE, Room 220, Salem OR 97301 | |
Ward 5 Councilor: Diana Dickey Email: ddickey@cityofsalem.net Phone: 503-399-7905 Term Expires: December 31, 2016 Address: 555 Liberty St SE, Room 220, Salem OR 97301 | |
Ward 6 Councilor: Sheryl A Thomas Email: sthomas@cityofsalem.net Phone: 503-399-7806 Term Expires: December 31, 2014 Address: 555 Liberty St SE, Room 220, Salem OR 97301 | |
Ward 7 Councilor: Warren Bednarz Email: wbednarz@cityofsalem.net Phone: 503-399-7907 Term Expires: December 31, 2016 Address: 555 Liberty St SE, Room 220, Salem OR 97301 | |
Ward 8 Councilor: Dan Clem Email: dclem@cityofsalem.net Phone: 503-399-7808 Term Expires: December 31, 2014 Address: 555 Liberty St SE, Room 220, Salem OR 97301 |
Click on this link to email the entire City Council:
Citycouncil@cityofsalem.net
Citywide Ward Map
For more on the River Crossing / Third Bridge see a summary critique and all breakfast blog notes tagged River Crossing. The No Third Bridge advocates also have lots of useful information.
2 comments:
Southbound truck traffic impacts downtown much more so than northbound trucks. A bridge doesn't change that at all.
This is cool!
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