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D-Day
Here we are: the first commute day with the Transit Mall closed. Yesterday’s O featured a chart with all the new stop locations (PDF, 764K). We just wanted to let you know that our Transit Surfer tool has been updated with all the new route and stop information.
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Tualatin Bike/Ped Bridge: Medium-Term Gratification
The Oregonian yesterday had a brief piece on a new bike/ped bridge that will open in a few weeks, crossing the Tualatin river. As a member of TPAC (Metro’s Transportation Policy Alternatives Committee), I had a chance to score and recommend this project as part of the State “Transportation Enhancements” competitive process. I feel a…
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Streetcar Vehicle Pipeline
Update: The vehicles are apparently snowed in in Wyoming. Earliest possible arrival is Monday. Two pieces of news on new Streetcar Vehicles: Cars 8, 9 and 10 are almost here from the Czech Republic! Cars 8 and 9 landed in Baltimore just after Christmas and car 10 cleared customs in NJ on New Year’s Eve…
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Streetcar Makes USA Today
We’ve gone mass media. And they got the image wrong :-)
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Betting on Lottery Dollars for Milwaukie LRT?
Metro is floating its proposed legislative agenda past MPAC and JPACT. Included in the transportation plank is this phrase: “Providing lottery dollars to support the next leg of the region’s high-capacity transit system…” (this means Milwaukie Light Rail). Could this be the boost to get that corridor off the ground? The accompanying report notes that…