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Welcome to Streetcar Switch Central
The Streetcar re-opened on Monday after a two-week shutdown to install new track in the Pearl District. A very complicated set of switches, crossovers and merges create the new “Northrup Loop”. I’m celebrating because this represents the culmination of advocacy that I’ve been conducting since the Loop was first proposed shortly after the original alignment…
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What Data Set to Use for Our Transit Equity Project?
What demographic data sets will we use to compare against Transit Score to assess equity? The 2000 Census is currently the only complete data set at the census tract level, so we’re going to start there. Obviously that’s way out of date and we shouldn’t reach any strong conclusions based on it. I was asked…
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CRC Looking for a “Strong Owner”
ODOT Director Matt Garrett and WSDOT Secretary Paula Hammond have released their response (PDF, 160K) to the Columbia River Crossing Independent Review Panel recommendations. Two particularly notable points: 1) They agree to a phased project (i.e., “Uncle! We understand we can’t get $3.6B all at once.”) 2) They are looking for implementation under a “strong…
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Filling in Our Equity Map
Following up on our Transit Equity post yesterday, we’ve begun grabbing our Transit Scores. It’s going to take about 10 days to fill them all in. But meanwhile we’ll show you the work in progress. This map has the census tracts that are complete so far, with the color representing the average Transit Score for…
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CRC Alternatives Video Now Online
Councilor Liberty now has the video of the Community Alternatives Panel up on his website.