Posted Wed, Dec 1, 2:15 p.m.

If my memory serves me correctly, the Portland LRT was hinanced with 90% federal funds. This due, in total, to Jimmy Carter's Secretary of transportation being the ex-mayor of Portland. It helps to know people in high places. Seebee

Posted Wed, Nov 17, 10:40 a.m.

jmrolls may get that wish since, as of now, WSDOT has failed to meet the ADA standards for handicapped access in the deep-bore tunnel (DBT). Thus, a common Metro Dial-a-Ride bus has a wheelchair ramp that extends out from the bus by 6-feet 9-inches, measured from the outer rear tire ...

Posted Mon, Nov 8, 4:51 p.m.

David Sucher, and by inference others, too, states it very clearly. "What prevents us from considering repairing it (the viaduct) seriously ...?" This is what renowned structural engineer, Victor O Gray, P.E., has been strenuously arguing for nearly ten years. To no avail. WSDOT has the mindset that if it ...

Posted Mon, Nov 8, 4:47 p.m.

David Sucher, and by inference others, too, states it very clearly. "What prevents us from considering repairing it (the viaduct) seriously ...?" This is what renowned structural engineer, Victor O Gray, P.E., has been strenuously arguing for nearly ten years. To no avail. WSDOT has the mindset that if it ...

Posted Mon, Nov 1, 12:13 p.m.

To answer The Hays' question, "When are that nut job Elizabeth Campbell and the 'bridge guy' going to show up?" I'd say when WSDOT gets to answering the mandated federal code requirement to publish a Value Engineering Study, in accordance with Title 23, USC, Section 106. Along with that VE ...

Posted Wed, Oct 20, 8:59 a.m.

Or do like Sydney, Australia. Sell advertising space on freeway over-crossings. Surely this is no different than selling "naming rights", is it? Alternatively, ask the city mayor and council to make a thorough review of its current outrages salary scales. Can anyone justify 551 fire fighters, out of a force ...

Posted Sun, Aug 29, 2:06 p.m.

Serial-catowner seems to confuse inter-city travel with intra-city travel, as she bemoans the existence of an elevated SR 99 and its almost 64,000 trips THROUGH the city on the viaduct; all while being frightened of what her ferry-to-town pedestrian trip will be like if there is no viaduct. Moreover, she ...

Posted Wed, Aug 18, 2:23 p.m.

To me the principal issue with the so-called "road diet" program by SDOT is the likely contravention with the city's much vaunted "green" policies. Thus, from my experiences as a resident and traveler on Rainier Avenue S. that has been a 3-lane facility for several years now (with bike lanes ...