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Legal challenge of Property Dedications Threatens Sidewalks
From April Bertelsen: It is with a heavy heart that I share the following news. There has been a legal challenge in Federal court to the City of Portland’s ability to require private property dedications to build sidewalks. The Case The case is Marion Skoro v. The City of Portland, No. CV 06-1319-HU, filed in…
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Sustainable Urban Logistics
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Erkki Timmerbacka, Senior Consultant, Establish United Logistics Group (Finland Oy) Topic: Sustainable Urban Logistics (SeuLo) When: Friday, February 29, 2008, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
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StreetFilm: BRT in Bogotá
A few weeks ago we posted a link to a video of the Eugene EmX bus rapid transit line. Today, courtesy of Streetsblog, we have a seven-minute video of a much more expansive BRT system, the TransMilenio in Bogotá, Colombia. During peak hours their control center coordinates up to 1,000 buses an hour. This is…
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Portland Streetcar Loop Environmental Assessment Available
Metro has posted the Environmental Assessment documents for the proposed Eastside Loop Streetcar expansion. http://www.metro-region.org/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=13800 A public comment period is now in process: “A 30-day public comment period began with the release of the environmental assessment Feb. 8, 2008. All comments must be received by 5 p.m. Thursday, March 10, 2008.” Check out the Metro…
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How the Feds Mess with Transit Projects
Here’s a great article from the Pioneer Press in Minneapolis/St. Paul that talks about how the FTA calculates a Cost Effectiveness Index for transit projects. The Streetcar Loop is going through the same process and is subject to the same 23.99 magic number. Our problem is that every time we submit data that gets us…