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Transportation Job: Smart Trips Downtown
Received from PDOT yesterday: Transportation Options is hiring for a limited term (2 years, possibly longer if additional funding is provided) Transportation Demand Management Specialist I to work on our Smart Trips Downtown program. This program is modeled after our successful Eastside Hub and Northeast Hub individualized education & incentive programs. We will be working…
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Ramping Up Property Values
Yesterday’s O tells us that the County is so in need of a lot for a new courthouse that it is considering condemnation for a block that a developer is eyeing for a substantial tower (a very bicycle friendly one by the way). But the companion story makes an interesting point. The adjacent lot currently…
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Hawthorne Revolt
Over at Blue Oregon, Frank Dufay is criticizing the service plan for the #14 bus during mall construction. Head over there to read and comment.
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What’s Up with Trolleybuses?
The Trolleybus (AKA: electric bus, trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram) is an interesting technology, crossing the rubber-tired bus with the fixed guideway element of overhead caternary wires. Folks from AORTA have proposed trolleybuses as a lower-cost alternative to Streetcars. The nearest local examples are in Seattle. We also saw trolleybuses in operation…
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Engineering Safer Drivers
Hat tip to reader Anne McLaughlin who forwards a couple of links about things that make streets safer by influencing driver behavior. We’ve discussed here before the interesting fact that serious bicycle accidents have remained relatively constant here in Portland at the same time that the amount of cycling is increasing sharply. This study suggests…