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CRC Slips a Year
One of our correspondents attending the meeting at the Columbia River Crossing oversight committee at the Oregon Legislature reports that WSDOT officials said multiple times that construction would start at the “end of 2014”. While it was not acknowledged as such, that represents a year delay in previously communicated schedules.
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SW Corridor Purpose and Need
Scotty recently had a great discussion about the importance of the Purpose and Need statement for a project. Last week, the steering committee for the SW Corridor Plan met to discuss the draft Purpose and Need statement for the project. Here’s the agenda packet (PDF 4M) for that meeting. It contains both the draft Purpose…
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Oregonian Ready to Drop Binding Arbitration for TriMet and ATU
And they’d like the Legislature to fix it. “Binding arbitration is a high-stakes game of chance that could produce a terrible result for TriMet and the people who rely upon its services. It’s also unnecessary. The Legislature made an enormous blunder in 2007, when it voted in strongly bipartisan fashion to treat transportation workers like…
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Making Transit More Useable, One Building Lobby at a Time
We installed two new Transit Appliances this week, in the lobbies of City Hall and the Portland Building (upgrading the Portland Building countertop unit to a flat screen). This is the first deployment of a new release of our flat screen distribution, and the new release supports WiFi, which simplifies a lot of installations. Thanks…
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Generate Some Transit Love from Apple
This week Apple made some waves by announcing that in the next release of software for the iPhone, iPad, et al they would replace the Google-based mapping utilities with their own. But then a few smarter folks noticed that while the Google toolset has transit information built in, Apple’s would not (third party apps can…