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My Dinner with Corrado
Last week, I had the delightful opportunity join a small group for dinner with Corrado Poli (warning, it’s in Italian). Poli is a professor of “Economics and Environmental Ethics” in Padua. He is in the U.S. on a fellowship at Johns Hopkins to do an English translation of his book “Rivoluzione Traffica” (Traffic Revolution). Poli…
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VMT Tax Arguments
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: B. Starr McMullen, Professor of Economics and Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University Topic: Pros and Cons of a Vehicle-Mile Tax When: Friday, May 11, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center
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Rethinking Fareless Square
A heated debate broke out on a Streetcar capacity thread. So let’s elevate the discussion to its own thread. Is the original purpose fareless square was designed to meet in 1974 still relevant? Should it be modified, eliminated?
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Summer Forecast: Streetcar Crush Loads
Streetcar ridership has followed a relatively consistent cycle of growth. Each summer we see new peaks (the hypothesis is that this is driven by occupancy of new residential units along the alignment), then it drops off a bit in the winter, only to rise again the following summer. New extensions, like the one opened to…
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King County Executive Suggests Tolling Entire Freeway System
Well, Ron Sims is suggesting that the concept be examined. Still, for Seattle, that’s pretty bold. Can we get some of that kind of boldness down here?