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Monster Commutes
Not to be outdone by the Trib’s article on commuting, Sunday’s O has a piece on marathon commutes. My two cents is that if people want to do this, fine, but no rational social policy would focus on making it easy.
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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.