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First UGB Expansion: South Hillsboro?
On Tuesday, the Metro council–which earlier in the year finalized the area’s selection of urban and rural reserves–had a work session to discuss future expansions to the Urban Growth Boundary. The councilors expressed a need for about 15,000 housing units to meet future housing needs in the region, and one parcel which was discussed in…
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Bikeability and the Twenty-Minute Neighborhood
I am seriously bummed that I have a conflict. I will catch the video for sure: Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2010 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Nathan McNeil, MURP graduate and Research Associate in the Center for Transportation Studies, Portland State University Topic: Bikeability and the Twenty-Minute Neighborhood: Exploring How Infrastructure and…
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Joe Cortright’s Congestion Smackdown
Local economist Joe Cortright is all over the transportation blogosphere this week. He just produced a report for CEOs for Cities entitled “Driven Apart” that takes apart the Travel Time Index, the most widely published measure of congestion in major U.S. cities. Cortright systematically shows how the index overestimates congestion in cities with compact land…
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Walking the Central City
As part of the Portland Plan process, the City will be updating the Central City Plan (the project is being called CC2035). The Central City is being broken into quadrants, and North/Northeast is being worked on first. Two walks are planned to assess the current situation and opportunities: N/NEQ Community Walk- Lloyd District Saturday, September…
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Transit Score Debuts
The good folks at Front Seat, who brought us Walk Score, have now added Transit Score to their evaluation of your favorite address. It includes some very cool multi-modal comparison tools for your commute trip. There’s been a lot of coverage around the web, so I won’t go into details, but I was struck that…