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12 Lanes


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BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF | 503-243-2122

[April 8th, 2009]

A rally April 5 against a 12-lane Columbia River Crossing featured many articulate speakers among those who showed up at Waterfront Park on a Sunday at noon. They conveyed the myriad Roguish reasons why a dozen lanes sucks for the environment.














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But how about those protest signs! First place goes to the demonically adorable little boy whose sign said: “The road to hell has a 12 lane bridge.” Runners-up: “Is Palin in Portland” and “Adams Leonard are 12 lanes of EGO.” Glad to know all those creative-writing degrees in Portland are going to good use.

Suggestions for a Rogue? Submit them to rogue@wweek.com. To see more photos of the April 5 rally, go to wweek.com.

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Part of the problem is that the impacts of the bridge proposal were only examined in its immediate area. The bridge would temporarily ease congestion at the river, but it would shift it deeper into t...

Chris, Apr 9th, 2009 5:16pm
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Next week's rogue: the liquidators handling the Joe's liquidation

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This is one of Adams' pet projects that he wants to see pushed through before he is recalled from office in June, and Leonard -- who knew of the whole Breedlust affair and kept his mouth shut -- is tr...

Ed, Apr 11th, 2009 5:08pm
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Forget I-5 for a few years and concentrate on HWY 26! Only one lane on-ramp west from I-405.

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