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Duin Takes on CRC Design
Steve Duin’s Thursday column in the O blasts the Columbia River Crossing design. Among other things he quotes members of the project design advisory committee who have figured out that like other citizens trying to influence the project, they’re there for window dressing, not to actually change the DOTs’ agenda: Jeff Stuhr at Holst Architecture…
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Bus of the Future – in Stainless Steel
Passed on by regular commenter Ron Swaren: An engineer has designed an electric bus that runs on battery power. Putting motors in each wheel makes a transmission and driveshaft unnecessary, and allows the bus to ride closer to the ground for ease of entry. Using stainless steel also reduces weight. The prototype increases fuel efficiency…
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DeFazio on CRC: “I keep saying, make it smaller…”
OK, that’s a paraphrase. Here’s the full quote from Willamette Week: What’s your take on the Columbia River Crossing? I have said from Day One, they should think small. And they have been thinking really big and really expensive. And I am not sure how that project moves forward and how they will fund it.…
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A Year without a Car
A nice guest op-ed on OregonLive.com. Living without owning a car is not a death sentence and doing it successfully is not rocket-science either.
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Land Use and Transportation Connect at Federal Level
I greatly enjoyed this Neil Peirce column over the weekend and am delighted to see this kind of cooperation between HUD and Transportation. By coincidence, Rep. John Oliver, the Congressman mentioned, represents the district in Massachusetts where I grew up.