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An Annual Pleasure
Every December I look forward to reviewing project presentations at the PSU/PBOT Traffic and Transportation class, and then publishing them here. Another great crop of projects this year. Here are six of them. I will feature one special one in a few days! Alexis Grant wants to make rail crossings around the city safer for…
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AWOL at the Portland Plan Workshops: Congestion Mitigation
One of the questions asked at the Portland Plan workshops is where the City should focus its limited transportation resources. Different groups have had different top priorities: some favor transit, some sidewalks, one group said bikes. But in all six workshops so far, congestion mitigation has been near the bottom, including at the downtown workshop…
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Climate Change Battle of the PACs at Metro
Read this very carefully. On Thursday, JPACT will consider conflicting Climate Change amendments to the Regional Transportation Plan from MPAC and TPAC. The attached memo (PDF, 143K) makes this even more confusing, but fundamentally the folks on the Metro Policy Advisory Committee, which is focused on land use and community building have proposed a more…
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iPhone Apps for Parking
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Manipulating Citizen Input and Free Speech at the CRC Meeting
Citizens signing up to testify at this morning’s Project Sponsors Council meeting for the Columbia River Crossing were told that 10-15 names would be selected at random to testify in the limited time available. This evoked loud protest at the start of the meeting and co-chair Henry Hewitt announced that everyone who signed up would…