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Could these be for More than Amazon?
Amazon is prototyping delivery lockers at 7-Eleven stores. This sounds like an interesting idea, but it seems a shame to me to only use them for Amazon. Why not let customers sign up to get all their UPS, Fedex and other deliveries at facilities like this? It would do wonders for reducting last-mile delivery VMT…
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KBOO Bike Show: The Suburbs
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.8MB) We explore bringing cycling to the suburbs with Washington County, our neighbor to the west. While Portland likes to ring it’s proverbial bike bell for being bike friendly, we’re talking to Hal Ballard, Executive Director at the Washington County Transportation Coalition, Heather McCarey, Executive Director of the Westside Transportation…
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The Case for Stop Consolidation
Zef Wagner is recently relocated from Seattle to Portland and will be contributing occasionally and sharing his fresh-eyed perspective of Portland – Chris The Problem Most people take it as a given that local bus service is slow and often unreliable, while light rail is fast and very reliable. This is great news for those…
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Why I Support Bike Sharing in Portland
A number of months ago I signed on to a letter in support of using several million dollars from the regional share of Federal flexible transportation dollars to help jump start a bike sharing system in Portland. And although a number of friends and organizations that I’m normally allied with are questioning that priority, I’m…
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My Bionic Bike Ride
Saturday I joined about 100 other local electeds, planners, advocates and policy wonks for the 7th Annual “Visionaries Voyage” (also known in the past as the Policymakers Ride). This is a yearly bike ride that visits regional open spaces and natural areas and explores existing and potential trail network opportunities. In recent years this has…