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Serendipitous Transit Center
A silver lining in every cloud… Due to the sewer and street reconstruction on NW 23rd the #15 bus has been re-routed down NW 21st. While annoying, this has temporarily created something that I’ve always though NW needed: a transit center. Four transit lines pass next to Good Samaritan Hospital but don’t actually meet in…
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The Death of TSUB?
For a couple of decades, if you wanted to get Federal funding for a transit project, TSUB was your bane of your existance. “Transit System User Benefit” was a complicated computer model that scored your project, essentially rating you on how far and how fast you moved people. It was all about mobility and not…
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Another Look at Portland’s Transit Stats
Promoted from the Open Thread: Jarrett at http://www.humantransit.org has another interesting and provocative post on Portland. Hat tip to EngineerScotty.
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KBOO Bike Show: 2010 New Year’s Party
Listen to the show (mp3, 26.8MB) We wouldn’t be here without you, so please listen in to our in-studio party. We hear your bike-centric predictions and hopes for this upcoming year while we’re entertained by the lovely sounds of local band, No They Do, bringing us futuristic robot lullabies. Join us!
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Blip or Trend?
Apparently for the first time in a long time the U.S. auto fleet dropped in size. Americans bought 10 million cars last year, but scrapped 14 million. Is this a turnaround in attitudes, or an economy-driven one-time event?