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TriMet Cleans Up its Act
TriMet reports that it has installed exhaust filters on 45 of it’s oldest buses. Combined with the use of cleaner fuel, this reduces particulates and emissions by up to 90%. This brings the buses up to the standard applied to newer vehicles. TriMet will eventually roll out this technology to the oldest 1/3 of it’s…
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Taming Speed on Local Streets
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Couplet Lives to Fight Another Day
I was fortunate to testify relatively early in the process yesterday, as part of one of about a half dozen invited panels. That was before some 80 members of the public testified. I had to leave immediately after my testimony to get to an MPAC meeting. I just finished going through almost six hours of…
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Putting All the Pieces Together
Tuesday’s Trib had an article (“River of cars runs through it“) about the traffic that divides the South Portland neighborhood (formerly known as Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill) into pieces. A whole series of fixes is needed to remedy this and the neighborhood is justifiably impatient at the rate of implementation.
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Getting SMART about Washington County Commuter Rail
There was a nice piece in the Oregonian about Washington County Commuter Rail yesterday. One of my co-workers in Wilsonville was quoted. The part I was impressed by was how WIlsonville is going to adjust the routes for their SMART bus system to get folks from the Commuter Rail station to employment areas (many of…