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Density’s Impacts on Transportation
Via the Overhead Wire: Here’s a fun tool from the San Francisco League of Conservation Voters that inter-relates urban density with other factors including VMT, vehicle ownership and the air quality consequences of those choices. It gives examples of neighborhood types at each level of density and lets you plug in your owner numbers to…
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Cycle Tracks in NYC
One of the issues being looked at for the update to Portland’s Bicycle Master Plan is the issue of ‘cycle tracks’, bike lanes that enjoy some physical separation from auto traffic. Streetsblog has a post on just such a proposal for a corridor in New York. Could it work here? If so, where?
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Relative Misery
A couple of years ago, the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) released their annual commuting study, and ranked Portland worse than Seattle, to the disbelief and consternation of many folks here. This led TTI to revise their methodology, and this year’s report, as reported in the Oregonian, flips that back around. Indeed it goes on to…
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Mafioso
Yesterday’s Willamette Week identified my as part of the local transportation mafia. So be it. I’ll be happy to take some small credit for the wonderful alternative transportation options we have here in the region. But it went on to paint the following picture: Local transit industry makes contributions to Earl Blumenaur’s PAC Earl’s PAC…
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Car Free Day in China
Via the SHIFT list, where this has engendered much discussion… Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) — China plans to ban cars from streets in 108 cities in its first ‘No Car Day’ on Sept. 22, part of an effort to promote environmental protection and ease congestion in the world’s second-largest auto market. Streets in areas of Beijing,…