Bi-State Transportation Committee First Annual Assessment – ARCHIVE
General Information
MEMORANDUM
| TO: | Bi-State Transportation Committee |
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| FROM: | Dean Lookingbill, RTC Transportation Director Andy Cotugno, Metro Transportation Director |
| DATE: | August 29, 2000 |
| SUBJECT: | Bi-State Transportation Committee First Annual Assessment |
On September 20, 2000 the Bi-State Transportation Committee will have reached its first year anniversary. The bylaws call for an annual report back to JPACT and RTC. In order to develop the report, Committee members will be asked to discuss what they see as the most important information/tasks/decisions of the last year and will be asked to discuss which of these should be in the report to JPACT and RTC. A chronological listing of last year’s meetings and their topics is presented below as a memory jogger.
- September 20, 1999
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- The first meeting of the Bi-State Transportation Committee was held at the Port of Vancouver. After an extended time devoted to member introductions, the Committee discussed how to define the bi-state transportation problem and the charge/ operating procedures for the Committee.
- The Committee first looked at the common elements that bind the two communities together. These included an interdependent economy, interrelated land use and a single air quality air shed. Discussion then centered on the question; how does transportation keep you from achieving these plans. While traffic congestion is a problem in both the I-5 and I-205 corridors, the biggest risk or impact is that the traffic congestion will res