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Setting Course for the 22nd Century
Metro is just beginning an update of the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). Every four years, Metro is required to update our transportation plan to comply with state and federal planning requirements. I’m excited to announce that this update will be done in a different way than past updates, and, hopefully, give us some direction out…
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The Oregon Business Plan and Transportation
Today was the big Oregon Business Plan Summit. Besides a fun session in which Harvard’s Michael Porter analyzed the plan (more on his presentation in another post), of course I immediately went to the transportation section of the plan. Beyond the predictable priorities like the Columbia Crossing, there were some encouragingly progressive ideas:
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Congestion = Prosperity?
Rex passes along the following link from yesterday’s NY Times Magazine: The Way We Live Now: Speed Bump While talking about tolling as the increasing preferred approach to deal with congestion, it suggests this newly emerging perspective: The overarching new credo is that gridlock shouldn’t be conceived of as a problem or a mark of…
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My Commute: A New Year’s Resolution
Hi, I’m Willow, and I write a blog for Urban Honking called perfect heart. Jessica asked if I would do an entry here about one of my New Years resolutions. This is actually a resolution I set for 2005, and didn’t even come close to accomplishing, so I put it at the top of my…
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Updated: A Pain the Bridge
Update: This weekend’s closure has been postponded due to the weather, and tentatively rescheduled to next weekend For those of us who just finally got that sense of relief that two years of maintenance on the Broadway Bridge are over (or who suffered through the projects on the Hawthorne or Ross Island bridges before), here…