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Oregonian Discovers Change in Streetcar Schedule
The story that the Streetcar Loop won’t start operation until September of 2012 has been bouncing around the internet today like ‘breaking news’, but it’s anything but. Back on New Year’s day I answered a question on this very blog with: “The Streetcar Loop will likely open in late 2012. The arrival of the vehicles…
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Ted Wheeler Agrees, CRC Traffic and Revenue Projections Unjustified
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Can the CRC Pay its Way in Tolls? Only in a Pipedream?
Apparently, the answer is “no one knows.” The Oregonian’s Jeff Manning digs into the consultants’ reports and finds the interesting conclusion that: “None of these models… was specifically developed for evaluating tolling applications, and therefore all of them lack to varying degree one or more of modeling features essential for road pricing analyses.” . Washington’s…
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New Way of Doing Business at ODOT?
Last week Oregon Department of Transportion Director Matt Garrett announced the creation of an “Active Transportation Section” within the department. While some speculated that this might effectively be just window dressing, BikePortland appears to believe this could be a substantive shift in a positive direction. What do you think?
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Parking Still a Bargain in Portland
A study reported in the Business Journal indicates that at $15, downtown daily parking is still pretty cheap when compared to other large cities. Likewise for the monthly rate of $185. In related news, Streetsblog has a take on what I think is the same study, and notes how awesome the most expensive cities are.…