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Metro Appointment Race Gets Interesting
As former Governor Barbara Roberts adds her name at the last minute to the least of folks seeking to replace Council Robert Liberty. I wonder what her CRC stance is? The final list (the cutoff was at 5pm today): Martha Dibblee, a retired health physicist and consultant who has served on the Energy Facility Siting…
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JPACT Ready to Revise Flexible Funds Policy
JPACT is poised to adopt (tomorrow) the recommendations of a task force (PDF, 267K) on how to allocate flexible funds between active transportation and freight projects. It looks to me like the recommendations will limit freight projects to smaller projects that aren’t likely to get funded in other categories. It would appear that this will…
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Stinging CRC Rebuke from NYC
I just want to highlight this comment left earlier this evening on an earlier post about the Columbia River Crossing. Hard to say it more articulately: February 8, 2011 8:09 PM David Bragdon Says: The real question, and the one which will determine whether anything gets built, is whether the Governors recognize that for the…
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Upcoming Events of Interest
The U.S. House Transportation Committee is going to hold a hearing in Vancouver, WA on February 21st. BikePortland is tracking the details. On February 28th at 9pm, OPB’s Oregon Experience program features “Street Car City” about Portland’s Streetcar history. Details at PBOT via the Commuter Central blog.
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Mobile Transit App Roundup