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Watch Out TriMet, Here Comes Google
From the NY Times, Google has its own transit service (registration required). Interesting that here, the business community’s reaction to congestion is to ask for billions in public investment, while in the Bay Area, the reaction is to create a new employment perk.
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Transit Safety Poll at the Business Journal
This week, the Business Journal’s poll is about how safe (crime safe – not traffic safe) you feel on TriMet: Total crime dropped in 2006 on MAX and TriMet — to a total of 886 crimes from 988 in 2005. But there were still 88 robberies last year, and 156 simple assaults. Do you think…
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CTRAN Pilots B100 Bus
Via the Daily Journal of Commerce. They’re also going to roll out B5 to their whole fleet.
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D-Day
Here we are: the first commute day with the Transit Mall closed. Yesterday’s O featured a chart with all the new stop locations (PDF, 764K). We just wanted to let you know that our Transit Surfer tool has been updated with all the new route and stop information.
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What’s the Utility of a Train/Bus Hybrid?
Two different readers forwarded me links to this train/bus hybrid vehicle being introduced by JR Hokkaido. On of them was Adron, who blogged about it at his site. So it seems to me that we now have a variety of design choices for transit system, divided along several dimensions: Dedicated right-of-way (e.g., LRT, BRT) versus…