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A Portland Street Changes its Name to César E. Chávez Blvd., After a Fightnew

The city's effort to rename a major street after the activist and farm worker crumbled in 2007 after a push to rename Interstate Avenue spurred allegations of racism against opponents. The rename process kicked off for a second time last winter, this time with a professional consultant and a new street.

The Portland Mercury | Sarah Mirk | 02-04-2010 | Transportation

Tags: César E. Chávez, Portland

Money, Environmental and Political Worries Halt Big Bridgenew

AFTER YEARS OF steamrolling steadily in the same direction, the controversial Columbia River Crossing (CRC) plan has hit gridlock as leaders of the I-5 bridge replacement project clearly split last Friday.

The Portland Mercury | Sarah Mirk | 12-10-2009 | Transportation

Tags: politics, environment, traffic, construction, funding, Bridges

Want to Kill Someone in Oregon? Use Your Carnew

Without strict punishments and tough enforcement of dangerous driving, lawyers and alternative transportation advocates say that even fatal traffic crimes often fall through the cracks of the state's justice system.

The Portland Mercury | Sarah Mirk | 11-13-2009 | Transportation

Tags: dangerous driving, Oregon, transportation, vehicular homicide

The Dead Freeway Society: The Strange History of Portland's Unbuilt Roadsnew

While other American cities have built, built, built, Portland's freeway history is boom and bust: massive road projects were planned, mapped, and sold as progress by one generation, then killed by another.

The Portland Mercury | Sarah Mirk | 09-25-2009 | Transportation

Tags: roads, transportation, Portland, urban planning, freeways

Portland's Bridge to Disasternew

A proposed mew 12-lane bridge over the Columbia River will cost $4.2 billion, increase traffic, and do little to alleviate climate change. What the hell are we thinking?

The Portland Mercury | Amy J. Ruiz | 03-13-2008 | Transportation

Tags: transportation