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League of Women Voters to Host Panel on Public Infrastructure Needs
League of Women Voters to Host Panel on Public Infrastructure Needs Public Invited at 7pm on December 9 The League of Women Voters of Portland will host a panel discussion on the status of public infrastructure in the U.S. and in Portland, and the need for a comprehensive policy to fund and implement maintenance programs…
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AWESOME Cycling
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speakers: IBPI Board Members/founders Mia Birk, Principal of Alta Planning + Design, Jay Graves, owner of the Bike Gallery, and Rex Burkholder, Metro Councilor Topic: Portland is Good, but Copenhagen and Amsterdam are AWESOME: Lessons Learned from the World’s Best Large Cycling Cities…
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Transit and “Food Deserts”
The Sunday O has a feature article on “food deserts”, areas with poor access to grocery stores and particularly choice among grocery stores. It details the story of one family in the Cully neighborhood that makes a 1+ hour (each way) transit ride to a discount warehouse grocery 10 miles away. I’m contrasting this with…
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Benefits of Active Transportation
Via Streetsblog: The folks at the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy have figured out that if we could double the bike/pedestrian mode share for trips of one mile or less (from the current 31% to 70%) we would not only save 50 BILLION miles driven each year, we’d have a much healthier population. Full report (PDF, 5M).
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Desktop Transit Info Appliance
I’ve been playing around with using inexpensive internet devices as displays for transit arrival information, looking for something that will scale inexpensively. I’ve been having some fun with WiFi picture frames, but haven’t found one with quite the right features yet. I’ve had slightly more success with a gadget called a ‘Chumby‘. Here’s mine sitting…