Strange Bedfellows: Stacey, Charles Speak Up Against Current CRC Plans
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Blue Oregon
1000 Friends of Oregon's Bob Stacey and the Cascade Policy Institute's John Charles recently joined forces to speak up against the current CRC highway mega-project. They wrote:"Among the hundreds of projects we've seen, the current CRC proposal stands out as a doozy, throwing staggering amounts of money at a wasteful, ineffective plan. Others, including the project's own Independent Review Panel, have written about the huge costs to the taxpayers and the state, about the risks of cost overruns in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and about the project not fixing congestion but merely moving it from Vancouver to the I-405/Rose Quarter area."
The two called for a different direction, including retaining the existing bridge spans, increasing legislative oversight of mega-projects, building a supplemental bridge, and using tolling.
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