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Sine Die Breathes Life into Streetcar Loop
The final days of the legislative session were very good for Streetcar in Portland. The package of Lottery bonding projects included two key items: $20M for vehicles for the Streetcar Loop About $250M for the bridge for Milwaukie Light Rail That means that not only are we in good shape for the capital side of…
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Transportation Leaders at City Club on Friday
“Transportation for the 21st Century” Forum explores the future of transportation in Oregon Rex Burkholder & Gail Achterman http://www.pdxcityclub.org/forums-events/friday-forums.php When: This Friday, June 29 Doors open at 11:30, Program begins at 12 PM and concludes at 1:15 PM. Where: The Governor Hotel 614 SW 11th Ave. Make your reservation now! http://www.pdxcityclub.org/cgi/res_new.pl The 20th century was…
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Social Networking to Ease Congestion?
Last month I wrote about the Poli Car system in Italy that added an element of trust to carpooling via a text message system. I just learned of a similar system that has been started in Seattle called Goose. And this week’s Smart City radio program has an excellent discussion of a system in Massachusetts…
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Guilty as Charged
And damn proud of it. Monday’s Oregonian features a front page story that essentially accuses Peter DeFazio, the City of Portland and Portland Streetcar of working to get Federal dollars to Oregon Iron Works to help jump start a local streetcar manufacturing industry. I believe the official charge should be “conspiracy to create jobs in…
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A Low Return on Investment
Last week I attended a presentation by Rob Puentes of the Brookings Institute that was part of the economic development series sponsored by PSU and Metro. Puentes’ topic was national policy on infrastructure investment and his message was pretty stark: we’re wasting our transportation dollars. Puentes has analyzed the return on investment for our transportation…