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Looking for a Quick Ride?
Rent a bike! Similar to the Flexcar car sharing program, but perhaps paid for in part by advertising, we may soon be able to rent any of up to 500 bicycles in downtown Portland. From portlandonline.com: The City of Portland is accepting proposals for a bike rental system in the central city area. Imagine being…
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Congestion Costs and Solutions
This article, written by Todd Litman and published on Planetizen, broaches the possibility that the Texas Transportation Institute’s methodology for their annual Urban Mobility Report is flawed by using unrealistic expectations as a benchmark for measuring the cost of congestion. He suggests that a more realistic measurement of cost could be derived by using a…
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Bridge Book at PSU Seminar
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Sharon Wood Wortman, author of “The Portland Bridge Book” Topic: Bridge Stories When: Friday, October 19, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center
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And Speaking of Rail Freight…
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Zachary Horowitz, Columbia River Crossing Topic: Freight Railroad Capacity Alternatives in the Pacific Northwest: An Analysis of Class I Cooperation in the Columbia River Corridor When: Friday, October 12, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center
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1,131 More Trucks
That’s how many more trucks per month will be required to sustain south coast timber company operations after the Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad shuts down 120 miles of its line between Coquille and Eugene. Can someone remind me again of the logic of outsourcing highways to the private sector? Was the sterling example from…