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Tab A Now Fits in Slot B
Warning: this is a little techno-geeky. But it’s a significant win for those of us who care about open transit data. Until very recently, you could get a TriMet data feed for your transit application without any problem, and you could get NextBus data for Streetcar arrivals, as long as your application was non-commercial. But…
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Asking the Right Question About Burnside/Couch
It would appear that the debate over the future of West Burnside and Couch is about to re-ignite. This will be round three. I participated in round one, back in the middle of the last decade, when I represented my neighborhood in NW Portland on the stakeholder committee. There was broad consensus during that process…
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Reslicing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The conventional wisdom has been that transportation in our region was responsible for about a third of our Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Metro has just commissioned a new inventory of emissions, and came up with a lower number, about 25%. Of that, about 3/5ths is “local passenger traffic” (i.e., cars) and 2/5ths is our long distance…
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VIPs Headline CRC Freight Session
From the City of Portland: PFC [Portland Freight Committee] Members and Interest Groups: I wanted send out a reminder ahead of time that there will be a special joint Portland Freight Committee/Vancouver Freight Alliance meeting scheduled during our normal first Thursday meeting date. The focus of July’s meeting will be the CRC project and our…
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Two Paradigms for Transit Parking