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Focus on Safety
The Trib ran two articles on safety yesterday. The first talks about dangerous intersections on 82nd and 122nd and goes on to talk about one-time money Commissioner Adams is seeking for safety improvements. The second talks about the 10-year trend in improvement in deaths due to traffic accidents (it’s dropped by about half). The first…
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Real Time Traffic Mapping
Do you suppose this is a Google Maps mashup? Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Fred Liang, P.E., City of Bellevue, Washington Topic: Development of the Bellevue Real Time Arterial Traffic Flow Map When: Friday, April 6, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center
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Our Collapsing Infrastructure
Via Planetizen. An article in the LA Times bemoans sinkholes resulting from aging sewer lines (of course we had our own recent example of that in Portland). I think this is emblematic of a much larger problem: we simply aren’t funding maintenance of key civic infrastructure including roads, bridges, water and sewer lines, schools and…
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Updated: Watching Paint Dry
Update: 4/3/07 This is now rescheduled for 10:30am on Thursday, 4/5. Original Post: 3/23/07 Actually, thermoplastic. Sam Adams has scheduled a press opportunity for the striping of new crosswalks on NW 21st and 23rd (weather permitting). Actually, this is pretty cool. It’s part of the overall set of safety improvements for main streets being piloted…
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Oregonian Traces Milwaulkie LRT Turn-around