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Earl on Smart City
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TIF to TRID?
Over at CommissionerSam.com, Sam is enthusing over a new financing tool he heard about at RailVolution, Transit Revitalization Investment Districts. The idea is to capture the value created by transportation improvements, and use that to fund the improvements. Similar in concept to Tax Increment Financing, but in operation more like beefed up versions of the…
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Help Sam Spend Your Money
Commissioner Sam is going to ask his Portland City Council Colleagues to put some of Portland’s one-time surplus funds into the backlog of road paving and other transportation improvements (with a safety focus). Sam is looking for suggestions on projects to include in the request. Sam’s missive is below. Head over to CommissionerSam.com to add…
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RTP Exercise – Solutions – Free Market
In the final question for our Free Market scenario, what are some of the solutions to achieve these outcomes: Organizational Leadership is increased for business and related transit oriented development. Overall subsidization of the transit systems (including roadways) decreases by at least 50% at the state levels and users provide more representative costs. Companies locate downtown…
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Updated: The End of Commuting
Updated: 11/6/06 The video stream for this presentation is up at http://www.cts.pdx.edu/seminars.htm. The Oregonian also had an interview with Pisarski, who is the author of the Commuting in America III report. He has some interesting perspectives, particularly on the fact that commuting is a lower share of our total transportation each year. He also makes…