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New Transportation Blog
There’s a new transportation blog out there, PDX Transit: PDXTransit is a website that discusses transit, commuting, and mobility in Portland Oregon Metropolitan vicinity. We focus on local trends, events, emerging technologies that will improve how Portlanders “Walk, Drive, Bike, and Ride” around the city. Welcome to the block! A recent post highlights PDOT’s Shopping…
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Writer’s Block
OK, maybe more like writer’s laziness. I’ve been asked to write an article for the next issue of the Coalition for a Livable Future newsletter on the RTP Update. I’m looking for suggestions or important decision issues for the Regional Transportation Plan to write about. Here’s the beginning of my list: How do we pay…
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Your Opinion or Observation in this Space
Yours truly will be doing some traveling over the next few weeks, including a Metro-sponsored trip up to Vancouver, B.C., to see not the central city (that’s been so done already), but the suburbs! While I’m sure my travels will provide things for me to write about here, I’m also looking for some guest posts…
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Everyone, Please Take A Breath
Some of the comments here have gotten downright nasty in the last little bit. I have edited out a few of the most extreme, but I can’t keep up. Since the recent newspaper coverage, we’ve gotten some new readers (yeah!), so it might be a good time to review the rules: All contributions and comments…
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Pausing for a Moment of Reflection
A few updates on the state of the organization… Apparently newspapers are not quite a dead medium yet. They’re still useful to drive traffic to the web. Monday’s article pushed us to 645 visitors for the day, more than 100 over our previous record. Somewhere in the last few days we slipped past 80,000 visitors…