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By Request: WES to Salem
To head off a full-blown hijack on another thread, I’m opening up this post for discussion of extending Washington County Commuter rail down to Salem. The commuter rail line is now known as WES (Westside Express Service).
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Commuter Rail Study for Yamhill County
Today’s News-Register has an article about new interest in a study for commuter rail in Yamhill County. The article uses the term “light rail” in a few places but from the context it is pretty clear that what they are really talking about is commuter rail on existing freight tracks. Article: Tribe puts rail study…
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Regional High Capacity Transit System Plan
Since the Regional Transportation Plan is fully underway, and grabs most of the headlines, I thought everyone should also know about what Metro is doing with regard to high capacity rail planning. First of all, we in Portland owe much to the dedicated and visionary leaders and planners in the 1970’s and 1980’s for the…
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Suburb to Suburb
Jim Mayer has a stark piece in Sunday’s O about the difficulty of moving between suburbs on transit (with accompanying map [PDF, 2.5M] and analysis of potential solutions). There’s no denying the problem, but how do we make the economics work for relatively lower-density/ridership routes (or are there high-ridership potential routes)? I was struck by…
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Getting SMART about Washington County Commuter Rail
There was a nice piece in the Oregonian about Washington County Commuter Rail yesterday. One of my co-workers in Wilsonville was quoted. The part I was impressed by was how WIlsonville is going to adjust the routes for their SMART bus system to get folks from the Commuter Rail station to employment areas (many of…