UPDATED: Kotek Concedes Death of CRC (For This Legislative Session)

ODOT says it will shut project down by May 31

By NIGEL JAQUISS

With the special legislative session over, House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) has conceded the Columbia River Crossing is dead—for this year, anyway.

Kotek tried hard to move legislation that would have funded an Oregon-only version of the Columbia River Crossing project in the short legislative session that ends today.

But absent Washington's willingness to fund its share of what had been, up until last July, a bi-state partnership, members of both chambers showed a distinct lack of interest in moving a bill this session. 

Here's the statement Kotek issued this afternoon.



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