The Commission looks to finalize recommendations from among the 11 candidate projects in the region all competing statewide for $42 million in lottery-backed funding. (For previous notes on ConnectOregon and some of the projects, see here. There are way more applications than funds, and most projects will not be funded.)
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| Preliminary voting for ConnectOregon V projects (click to make legible) |
Also interesting in the minutes of last month's meeting was conversation about poor conditions on the Center Street Bridge. The irony is perhaps lost on some: We have money to plan a shiny new future bridge, but not enough to maintain our existing one.
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| $7 million on the SRC could have funded the pavement. |
New Federal Transportation Authorization (mini-round-up)
The League of American Bicyclists has a brief analysis of the proposed federal transportation bill. Also Streetsblog. Apparently there's also some talk about increasing flexibility on tolling. There will be more to say!
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Regarding the Center St. pavement conditions: what that was about was a discussion of a troublesome and moderately large pothole on Center St. exit ramp that drops down to Front Street (southbound). ODOT had put an orange cone out to alert drivers of the pothole. Sometime during the last few weeks, an ODOT crew filled that pothole.
-Mike Jaffe, MWVCOG staff
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