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Legal challenge of Property Dedications Threatens Sidewalks
From April Bertelsen: It is with a heavy heart that I share the following news. There has been a legal challenge in Federal court to the City of Portland’s ability to require private property dedications to build sidewalks. The Case The case is Marion Skoro v. The City of Portland, No. CV 06-1319-HU, filed in…
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Sharing the road
Trimet News Release (February 26, 2008) TriMet & BTA will work to make it safer for bicyclists & buses Two weeks ago, 15-year-old Austin Miller died while riding his bike home from his Beaverton high school when he and a TriMet bus collided at the intersection of SW Farmington and Murray. As the police investigated…
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NY Times Editorializes for Infrastructure Spending
Read the whole thing here. Nearly seven months after a highway bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, a federal commission put a jaw-dropping price tag on starting to attend to America’s crumbling foundations: $225 billion a year for the next 50 years just to maintain and upgrade surface transportation.
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Sustainable Urban Logistics
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Erkki Timmerbacka, Senior Consultant, Establish United Logistics Group (Finland Oy) Topic: Sustainable Urban Logistics (SeuLo) When: Friday, February 29, 2008, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
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One Block at a Time
The Daily Journal of Commerce has a nice article on Tad Savinar’s efforts to tailor the urban design of the transit mall block-by-block to the needs of the local land uses. I blogged about this more than a year ago.