DeFazio: CRC too big, too expensive
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Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio, chair of the House Highways and
Transit Subcommittee, was quoted in the newspaper twice this week
criticizing the Columbia River Crossing's 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 DeFazio as
saying that the project needs to be scaled back in terms of both design
and cost. April 22, 2009.
The Willamette Week
also quoted DeFazio 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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