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New info on the Southwest Corridor options
Lately, the Powell/Division project has been getting much of the press, with significant public outreach in advance of next week’s Steering Committee meeting. But the Southwest Corridor project–a project that is on a far longer timetable–has been making some advances as well. This past week, three new documents were published by the project team: A…
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Daylight Savings Open Thread
Some of the latest happening in Portland-area transportation and land use. As mentioned last time, the Powell/Division Steering Committee further narrows down the project alignment next Wednesday. The preferred alignment seems to be Tilikum to 12th to Powell to 82nd to Division to Hogan to Stark to Kane to MHCC. Along this stretch, most of…
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Rose Bowl 2015 Open Thread
Happy New Year! There’s a little football game happening next week. Of course, yours truly is an Oregon State alum, so I’m not quite as excited about that as some of you… More public outreach on the Powell/Division project, as Metro asks southeast residents about safety. TriMet is touting a 3.2% increase in ridership last…
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Could Bus Multiple Units (BMU)s bridge the bus-rail divide?
Here at Portland Transport, we (both editors and commenters) frequently like to engage in a bit of technical speculation, hoping for future improvements that will allow transit agencies to do more with less. There’s lots of talk around here about electric buses, of driverless vehicles, of different vehicle configurations, and even more exotic concepts like…
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The federalist approach to transportation funding moves forward
In the aftermath of this month’s elections, lobby group Transportation for America (created to support reforms to federal transportation policy that would make it less hideous) announced today that it’s shifting resources toward the legislatures of “states that want to continue investing.” Great!