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Our Streetscape Future: Turning Japanese?
The following is a dramatization of actual events. Actual dialog and concepts presented have been compressed and highlighted for loggification purposes: So I’m sitting there at the sushi bar with Portland’s Consul General from Japan, asking him for advice on my upcoming fellowship study (which isn’t easy to do in Japanese – especially as the…
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Why Doesn’t “Share the Sidewalk” Work?
America is an entitlement society. Unlike European – or even more strikingly, Asian culture – we don’t share. We don’t cooperate. Every special interest group has their own identity and expects their own separate but equal facility. Non-transport example: look at how Portland solved the dogs in parks problem. Not by getting dog owners and…
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Free the Bike!
I attended last year’s ceremony where the League of American Bicyclists (LAB) presented Portland the “Gold” award for best American bike City. Commissioner Adams (great that he landed the Portland Office of Transportation (PDOT) assignment!) has said he doesn’t think this is good enough. He wants us to be “Platinum”, a level the LAB has…