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KBOO Bike Show Special: Mayoral Candidates Max Brumm and Sam Belisle
Listen to the show (mp3, 23.3MB) The Bike Show’s coverage of the 2012 Mayoral race continues with a special edition featuring candidates Max Brumm and Sam Belisle.
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Future prospects for BRT in Portland
This past evening in the Twitterverse, I had a discussion with several fine folks, including Michael Andersen, intersection 911, and our very own Al M, on the future prospects for major capital improvements in the bus system, up to and including BRT. (Planned purchases of replacement busses, tardy as they are, are excluded). An oft-held…
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Electric Motorways?
University of Washington researcher Jerry Schneider points to a Swedish company (Elways) researching the concept of “electric motorways”–highways equipped with electric lines which can be used to energize and power vehicles traveling thereon. Elways proposed architecture consists of buried third-rail power, accessed by lowering a pickup shoe into a channel embedded in the road surface;…
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Digging Into TriMet’s Proposed Service Changes: NW Edition
It’s time once more to dive into TriMet’s proposed service changes. This time I will look at the areas where the vast majority of actual bus service cuts will be concentrated: NW Portland and St. Johns. First, here are the maps of current and proposed service: First of all, the big service cut. TriMet is…
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Watch Out for Streetcars!
Track testing for the Streetcar Loop will take place Tuesday through Thursday next week (Feb 21-23). Look for the first vehicles to appear on the east side (and on the Broadway Bridge)!