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You Can’t Make a Mall without Breaking Some Eggs
Yesterday’s O included an article on expected disruption to retail during the upcoming Transit Mall reconstruction. At the same time, TriMet has just launched a web site (http://portlandmall.org/) just for the project. You can get more details at a series of open houses that TriMet is holding in November.
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Trip Planning from the Experts
According to the Oregonian, apparently a few lucky households (participating in Metro’s “Drive Less, Save More” campaign) got trip planning advice from the experts at UPS. Trip chaining – it’s not just for professionals.
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Driving Your House
Over at the BTA Blog they’re citing a study that indicates that for some income categories, transportation costs are now a larger portion of income than housing. Read and comment there.
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Transit at GOSCON
The Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) is here in Portland today and tomorrow and I signed up because there is a track just on transit. I just came from a session looking at development of a mult-agency, multi-modal trip planner. There’s a lot of work to do but it could be very cool when it’s…
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Progress from Tragedy?
Almost a year ago I had the sad occassion to write about a pedestrian fatality just around the corner from my home. It’s possible that some good may come out of this. The neighborhood association has been aggressively working with PDOT to improve safety on NW 21st and 23rd. PDOT has already re-signed the streets…