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Happy Birthday to the Interstate Highway System
As an article in last week’s Economist (sorry, you probably have to jump through some registration screens to see this) reminds us, it was 50 years ago this month that President Eisenhower signed the bill creating the Interstate Highway System (hanging a carrot of 90% Federal matching funds in front of states). The impact on…
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South Waterfront Pedestrian Bridge Open House Tonight
Offer your input into what a pedestrian bridge from the South Waterfront to the Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill neighborhood should look like at a PDOT open house tonight. Wednesday, June 21, at 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Portland State University Smith Memorial Student Union – Room 329 1825 SW Broadway Portland, OR – The Portland Office of Transportation…
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Do Ghost Bikes Help or Hurt?
At the bike summit on Saturday, there was an interesting comment in the “Why People Don’t Ride” session. Ghost Bikes scare people. The white bicycles, placed at locations where riders have been killed are (as I understand it) intended as a combination memorial and reminder to our leaders that we need to make conditions safer.…
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Commuter Decision Making
One of the nice things about the bike summit was the opportunity to make connections. Either putting faces on names that might have just been an e-mail address before, or meeting new people. One new connection for me was a PSU instructor who is doing a study on how people make commuting choices. He’s recruiting…
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Belated Follow-up
Someone asked in a comment last week what the purpose of the Eastside Transit Analysis project was. I went hunting for the purpose and need statement to give the full set of project goals but couldn’t find it on Metro’s web site. I’ve since gotten the document from Metro (and suggested they put it on…