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PDXppl: Matt Ransom on the Columbia River Crossing

Sunday, August 30, 2009

PDXppl is a series of profiles of Portlanders and area residents and what they do.
The CRC, or Columbia River Crossing is perhaps one of the largest and most controversial public projects ever proposed in the  Portland Metropolitan Area (PMA). The project’s goal, to replace the two aging I-5 bridges across the Columbia River, has presented Portland with [...]

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PDXppl: Diana Banning, Portland’s Archivist

Friday, July 17, 2009

1937 intersection at SE Powell Blvd. & 39th Avenue looking north, one of the many street scenes in the Archives’ collections. Photo courtesy of Portland City Archives A2005-001.517

PDXppl is a series of profiles of Portlanders and what they do. Be sure to take a look at the PDXppl page on the right-hand sidebar of this [...]

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Corralling the Community Energy of Bike Corrals

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

I recently saw a post over at Bike Portland regarding a recently-installed “bike corral.” Bike corrals are a series of bike racks aligned in a row, in spaces usually reserved for parking cars. With the bike scene taking the city and its on-street parking by storm, the locations of these corrals are appearing across Portland. [...]

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