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Two Special Transportation Seminars at PSU
Peter Furth from Northeastern is visiting PSU this week, leading to a couple of extra Transportation Seminars: Speaker: Peter Furth Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University Topic: Aggressive Signal Priority with Compensation: Maximizing the Transit Benefit Without Disrupting Traffic When: Tuesday, May 26, 12:00 – 1:00 Where: ITS Lab (Room 315 in the…
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TriMet Responds on Bridge Design
TriMet spokesperson Mary Fetsch e-mailed me a few minutes ago with the photos you see here (click on the photos to view full-size, the thumbnails don’t really do them justice) and the following statement: Chris: We have selected a bridge architect with more than 40 years experience working on signature bridges including cable-stayed , suspension…
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Sellwood Deal Struck in Transportation Bill
Apparently I wasn’t the only one to notice the insanity of both failing to fund the Sellwood Bridge AND removing the ability of the County to introduce a fee for doing so. The Oregonian reports that language has been inserted in the road-centric transportation bill to allow Clackamas and/or Multnomah Counties to have a registration…
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They’re Back…
On Sunday, buses return to the Transit Mall! Details covered by both the Oregonian and Tribune.
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Total Lack of Bridge Imagination Continues to Plague Region
As if the box-girder Columbia River Crossing was not bad enough, Portland Architecture and several other blogs are reporting that TriMet will ignore the elegant modified cable-stay design by international designer Miguel Rosales in favor of a cheap and generic cable-stay alternative. Maybe while Fred is in Australia he can take a look at the…