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Love Affair with Cars in need of Couples Therapy?
This comes from a regular reader: The Pew Research Center has released a report that finds that fewer Americans now enjoy driving than did in 1991. 69 percent now enjoy driving, down from 79 percent in 1991. You can read the executive summary or the entire report at Pew’s website: http://pewresearch.org/social/pack.php?PackID=16 A couple of the…
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Henry’s Lament
Last week’s meeting of the Burnside Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) was interesting from a number of points of view. First, the couplet continues to score best on virtually all the criteria. The ‘new’ news at this meeting was that it wins on travel time and on the urban design criteria.
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Costs, Costs, Costs
It’s enough to make strong project managers weep in their beer. Costs for most of the materials used in transportation projects are going up, up, up. Jim Mayer gives us the ugly details, and the impact on contract bidding, in yesterday’s O. How does that change the economics of the cost of congestion? Bike lanes…
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Care to Work for the BTA?
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY with the Bicycle Transportation Alliance Safe Routes to School Program Coordinator Description$11-13.50/hr./DOE (Full-time 40hr per week position) The Safe Routes to School (SR2S) Program Coordinator will work with the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) and Willamette Pedestrian Coalition (WPC) to coordinate walking and biking encouragement and education programs in 8 Portland Public Schools. The…