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More TriMet Budget Woes
[Updated 10/26 with full press release after the break. – Bob R.] Prepare for more pain, this media advisory came from TriMet today: TriMet faces budget shortfall for FY2013 Agency kicks off budget process early to develop options TriMet will kick off its Fiscal Year 2013 budget process tomorrow at the monthly meeting of the…
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What Does the Tappen Zee Tell Us About the CRC?
East coast transportation geeks have been left with their jaws hanging, wondering what happened to the Tappen Zee Bridge project. The project, which might once have been an example of a better way to do a mega-project, was scoped to add Commuter Rail and BRT to a highway corridor. But co-incident with the project being…
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Is TriMet Getting Some Hybrid Lift Vehicles?
via Streetsblog: I haven’t heard anything about this locally, but this DOT document (PDF) contains a fairly cryptic item: Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) Project: Transit Vehicle Replacement (Mini-Hybrid) Amount: $5,000,000 TriMet will use funds to replace buses in its fleet that are beyond their useful lives with minihybrid technology buses. Or am…
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Connecting Bicycle and Rail Networks
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Ronald Tamse (City of Utrecht, Netherlands) Topic: Lessons from Utrecht: Connecting Bicycle and Rail Networks When: Friday, October 21, 2011, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
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Just What I’ve Always Wanted: an Icon for a Pothole