DiFazio: CRC too big, too expensive
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Oregon Congressman Peter DiFazio, chair of the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee, was quoted in the newspaper twice this week criticizing the Columbia River Crossing size and cost.
Steve Duin wrote in the Oregonian about the grossly over-sized design, calls it an "impending disaster." In the article, he cites Congressman DiFazio as saying that the project needs to be scaled back in terms of both design and cost. April 22, 2009.
In the same week, the Willamette Week quoted DiFazio as stating that the project should think smaller, stating that he doesn't know "how that project moves forward and how they will fund it." April 21, 2009.
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