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Bridge Analogy
Up in Vancouver, B.C. (where I will be for the next couple of days, with a group from Metro), Gordon Price is complaining that a proposed bridge will cause land use and transportation problems throughout the region that the proponents refuse to acknowledge or analyze. Gee, I can’t think of anything like that down here.
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Trib Looks at Car Commuting
Tuesday’s Trib looks at commuting by car in our region from several points of view: Which commute is the worst Suburban traffic presents a few twists Traffic jams don ‘t stop the data flow My favorite statistic from this collection of stories is quoted by Rex Burkholder: the average commute in 1990 was ten miles,…
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Bicycle Built for N
Here’s mass transit that’s truly sustainably powered! I nominate it for Hawthorne Blvd.
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Bridge Update
In today’s O, Jim Mayer takes stock at year 3 of the decade-long project to bring Oregon’s bridges up to snuff.
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Bookshelf: The Box
Link to book at Amazon.com Link to book at Powell’s Link to book at Multnomah County Library List Price: Simple ideas make for big changes. I just finished reading “The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger”. The simple idea is to seemlessly move freight from truck to…