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Updated: Downtown Carpool Moves to Flexcar
[Apparently my prior title for this post was too cynical :-)] I had actually suggested this idea to Commissioner Adams shortly after he was elected. I suspect that others inside PDOT smarter than me may have originated it independently, but I still feel a small glow of pride… Good for the City and good for…
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KBOO Bike Show: Safety and Bike Blogs
Listen to the show (mp3, 12.7M) Safety for cyclists Jonathan Maus from bikeportland.org, a popular Portland bike blog, talks about great bike blogs and other bike-related web sites.
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The “Portland Bicycle”
One of the pieces of news this week from the Federal Transportation Bill was funding to prototype local manufacture of streetcars, so that we might have a true “Portland Streetcar”. Well, Portland Transport doesn’t have $4M for a project, but we do have a very creative audience. On several threads it has been remarked that…
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We’re Not Alone!
Speaking of bikes… When we launched this site, we were under the impression that we were starting the first transportation-related blog in the region. But we find that someone got there first, at least for one mode. Jonathan Maus has been running Bike Portland for a while now, moving it from Oregon Live to its…
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Our Own Little Think Tank
Rob Bertini at PSU passes on this press release about funding for the Center for Transportation Studies at PSU (in cooperation with U of O, OSU and OIT – how’s that for alphabet soup). What research questions would Portland Transport readers want CTS to study? This is only the beginning of news coming out the…