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Video Feature – Neil McFarlane Interview – Part 1
Last week, we sat down with TriMet’s new General Manager, Neil McFarlane, for an interview featuring your questions. We have over 40 minutes of material. So that people can digest this via YouTube and comment, the interview has been divided into five segments, the first of which is shown today: This segment provides some background…
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Corridor Tolls for the CRC?
Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt proposed corridor tolling for I-5 as a Columbia River Crossing financing tool at Friday’s work session. The idea is to toll not just the crossing itself, but segments on either side of the river as well. The political motivation is to spread the costs across a greater set of users. The…
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Bikeability About More Than Bike Lanes
Via Pricetags: A paper by PSU MURP candidate Nathan McNeil (PDF) analyzes “bikeability” and develops a Walkscore-style scoring system. He specifically compares East Portland with more central parts of the City and gives East Portland an average score of 76 compared to 96 for more central neighborhoods. Among the points of comparison: East Portland has…
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Become the Activist You’ve Always Wanted to Be
The PSU/PBOT Traffic and Transportation Class is back for 2010! I can’t enthuse enough about this class, it has been the breeding ground for some of Portland’s most successful transportation activists. If you haven’t take this (free for citizens) class – sign up NOW!