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The Case for Rail
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Connecting the Global Warming Dots
It was all over the news this weekend – here’s one example – scientists now believe we are at the upper end of the range for how rapidly global warming is occurring and underscore the need to act sooner rather than later. To make the local connection, 39% of Greenhouse Gases in Multnomah County come…
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Car Free Cities Conference Call for Proposals
Greetings! In June of 2008 Portland, Oregon, USA will host an international conference on the future of urban transportation and livability. The eighth annual conference of the World Carfree Network is titled “Towards Carfree Cities: Rethinking Mobility, Rediscovering Proximity”. We are currently soliciting presenters from around the world on this theme and urge you and…
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REMINDER: We Are ALL Traffic
Update: There will be a number of bike rides from sites of fatal crashes to the Saturday rally. I will be leading one from NW 23rd and Quimby where Sara Cogan, a pedestrian crossing NW 23rd, was killed in 2006. We’ll assemble at 11:10am on Saturday for that ride. The bicycle community is responding in…
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Gordon Price on Integrating Transportation and Land Use
On Thursday November 29th, 2007 Gordon Price will give a free presentation on the effective integration of transportation in high-density environments, with an emphasis on land use. Price is a former City of Vancouver, B.C. Councilor and current Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia Professor who teaches, researches, and writes extensively on urban…