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Floating the 3rd Bridge Option
The folks behind the “Third Bridge Now” alternative to the Columbia River Crossing are having a Root Beer Float fundraiser on Saturday.
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Become the Activist You’ve Always Wanted to Be
The PSU/PBOT Traffic and Transportation Class is back for 2010! I can’t enthuse enough about this class, it has been the breeding ground for some of Portland’s most successful transportation activists. If you haven’t take this (free for citizens) class – sign up NOW!
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Rail~Volution is Coming!
The annual Rail~Volution conference, founded in Portland, is coming back home this year from October 18-21. Would you like to contribute to a conference presentation? The call for proposals is out: Rail~Volution is a conference for passionate practitioners – people from all perspectives who believe in the role of land use and transit as equal…
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Act on ACT Act
Pun intended. I’m a bit slow to the party on this. The BTA already has a post up about Earl Blumenauer’s Active Community Transportation Act. I encourage you to follow their lead on supporting this bill that would set aside $2B for active transportation.
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Getting Transit into the Jobs Bill
This from Transportation for America: We just got word from our team on Capitol Hill – despite the massive blizzard bearing down on the East Coast this week, the Senate is pushing forward on an $85 billion jobs bill. But the draft being circulated has not a single dollar to address the crisis in transit…