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What Vancouver Learned from the Olympics
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2012 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Dale Bracwell (Manager of Active Transportation for Vancouver, BC) Topic: Sustaining a Transportation Legacy from the 2010 Olympic Winter Games When: Friday, January 27, 2012, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
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CRC Offers Up Interchanges
Testifying before the Legislature, representatives of the Columbia River Crossing Project offered up $650M of savings by delaying freeway interchange improvements at Marine Drive, Fourth Plain, Mill Plain and SR500. Point of Order – the FEIS does not contain a phasing plan. What does the project need to do under the NEPA process to introduce…
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How Active Are Our Mayoral Candidates?
The PSU Planning Club is going to help us find out, with a candidate forum specifically on active transportation issues: Local Motion: Portland Mayoral Candidates Discuss Active Transportation at Portland State University What: A Portland Mayoral Candidates Forum on Active Transportation Who: Mayoral Candidates: Eileen Brady, Charlie Hales, and Jefferson Smith Emcees: Lawrence Wallack, Dean…
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Republican Party Chair Disses CRC and Transit in One Breath
Couv.com has the video of a joint appearance by Oregon Republican Party Chair Allen Alley and Metro President Tom Hughes, who have diametrically opposed positions on the Columbia River Crossing.
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Community opposition and infrastructure projects
A major issue with large-scale infrastructure projects, such as highways or rail transit lines, is that frequently they face community opposition. Depending on which side of the fence one sits on a particular project, such opposition can either consist of heroic defenders of community values fighting valiantly against vested interests and the desctruction of their…