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Dude, Where’s My Streetcar?
The Oregonian details schedule status for the Oregon Iron Works/United Streetcar order for the Streetcar Loop. Obviously we’re not celebrating. But I’d like to underscore a couple of points: 1) We’re not going to do anything that compromises the safety, quality or reliability of the new vehicles. If that means waiting, we’ll wait for delivery.…
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Updated: Analyzing Barriers to Cycling
Updated: 6/8/12 The paper behind this presentation is now available (PDF, 6.3M). Original Post: 5/10/12 Last week’s PSU Transportation Seminar was particularly thought-provoking. Peter Furth of Northeastern University has developed a quantitative analysis methodology for evaluating the comfort level of links in a bicycle network (or put another way, how bike-friendly any given street is).…
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KBOO Bike Show: Cycle Touring
Listen to the show (mp3, 27.1MB) This month the bike show hosts Ellee Thalheimer, author of Cycling Sojourner, the first cycle-tour guide to the state of Oregon, as well as Matt Picio, co-founder of Cycle Wild, a group that’s mission is “to connect people with nature via the bicycle” and who organize free cycle trips…
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Do You Roll Onto Streetcar?
If so, PBOT and Streetcar would like your help on evaluating the service conditions: The Portland Bureau of Transportation and Portland Streetcar are performing some research on our vehicles and how we are serving the needs of the community that uses mobility devises. We are recruiting people of all ages that use crutches, walkers, wheel…
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What would $2 billion of BRT look like?
Over on their Facebook page, OPAL links to an old Jarrett Walker column from three years ago, “bus-rail debates in a beautiful abstract city, and in los angeles“. In it, he poses the question of which is a better use of transit dollars: Building more expensive types of infrastructure (such as rail or high-end BRT)…