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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2017
Exotic sea creatures can be found in Seaside
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — The Seaside
Aquarium made some unusual
finds over the past several
days, including a triple-sail
Velella velella and a red-eyed
medusa jellyfish.
Velella velella can create a
“blue tide” when beaches are
strewn with an aquamarine
layer of jelly-like organisms.
While associated with spring
and summer, if close to shore
they can come in anytime the
wind blows out of the West,
Tiffany Boothe of the Seaside
Aquarium said.
“In the fall and winter when
the Velella come in, it is usu-
ally in smaller quantities and
they are usually smaller in
size,” she said.
The Velella washing in now
are small, some barely larger
than a grain of sand, Boothe
said.
Their common name —
by-the-wind sailor — refers to
the clear, triangular sail at the
top of the animal’s body which
catches the wind and propels it
across the surface.
The triple-sail Velella is a
Velella with a deformed sail.
Tiffany Boothe/Seaside Aquarium
Triple-sail Velella
‘FALL AND WINTER ARE ONE OF
THE BEST TIMES TO BEACHCOMB.’
Tiffany Boothe, Seaside Aquarium
Tiffany Boothe/Seaside Aquarium
Red-eyed medusa
“Instead of having just the
one sail they essentially have
three,” Boothe said. “I found
two on Seaside beach with this
deformity.”
Red-eyed medusas are a
small species of local jellyfish
that wash ashore from time to
time, she added. The animals
are now under the care of the
aquarium, and “doing quite
well.”
As far as future finds?
Keep scanning the beach.
“Fall and winter are one of
the best times to beachcomb,”
Boothe said. “Large surf com-
bined with west wind brings
in a lot of interesting things.
Keep an eye out for salps,
pyrosomes, bull kelp and var-
ious types of jellyfish.”
Highway committee begins work on regional tolling system
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — The first
meeting of a policy committee
charged with recommending
tolls for Portland-area inter-
states may have been most
notable for defining what a
regional tolling system will
not be.
The tolls that the Portland
Area Value Pricing Policy
Advisory Committee are con-
sidering will not involve stop-
ping at booths to pay a cashier,
or slowing down to toss coins
into a kiosk.
They may be optional for
commuters who want to save
time to reach a destination, or
priced dynamically to encour-
age travel during slower times
of the day.
“When we are talking
about (value) pricing we are
not talking about putting toll
booths,” said Trey Baker, a
consultant with New York-
based transportation engi-
neering and management firm
WSP USA. “That is just not
the way it is done anymore.”
The Oregon Department
of Transportation hired WSP
USA to serve as a resource for
the tolling committee.
The committee’s meeting
Monday, Nov. 20, at ODOT’s
Portland office was the first of
six meetings aimed at devel-
oping proposals to establish
a regional tolling system on
Interstates 5 and 205 in the
Portland metropolitan area.
The committee is charged
with voting on a proposal
A 25-member committee is
charged with recommend-
ing tolling options for Inter-
state 5 and Interstate 205 to
reduce congestion in the
Portland metropolitan area.
PUBLIC
COMMENTS
are accepted at each of
the committee’s meetings
and by email at ValuePric-
ingPAC@odot.state.or.us.
to recommend to the Ore-
gon Transportation Commis-
sion by the end of June. The
commission, the policy-set-
ting body for ODOT, will ulti-
mately decide on whether to
pursue tolls and any specific
tolling structure.
The transportation com-
mission also needs authoriza-
tion from the Federal Highway
Administration to enforce the
tolls. The commission would
need to submit its application
for that authority by Dec. 31,
2018.
“As we look at this, we are
looking at the feasibility or
viability,” said Oregon Trans-
portation Commissioner Sean
O’Hollaren, a member of the
tolling committee. “We may
come up and say this doesn’t
work here, but we have to look
at it.
“The one thing we do know
is when we invest in infrastruc-
ture to expand and to address
these issues, it’s not free, and
we have to figure out how to
pay for it.”
The commission is under
increasing pressure to act on
ways to reduce congestion in
the Portland area.
Transportation-funding
legislation, passed earlier this
year, required the commission
to come up with the conges-
tion-based pricing plan.
Traffic in the Portland
area burgeoned by 13 percent
between 2013 and 2015, while
delays increased by 22 per-
cent, according to an ODOT
analysis.
“As a result many parts of
the system are gridlocked for
hours per day,” said Mandy
Putney, ODOT major projects
manager.
Three examples of states
that have developed conges-
tion-based tolling are Wash-
ington, Texas, and Maryland,
Baker said.
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ple, used tolls to pay for an
eight-mile replacement of
the SR-520 floating bridge.
The tolls for the bridge are
priced based on supply and
demand. The fewer drivers on
the route, the lower the tolls.
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pricing” or “congestion pric-
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incentives to change com-
muters’ choices about when
and where to drive.
Used along with other
traffic-mitigating methods,
the congestion-priced tolls
can help relieve congestion
and save billions of dollars
in time and other costs asso-
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