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Can We Intersect the Politics of Bikes and the Politics of Thrift?
While we avoided a government shutdown a few weeks ago, it seems clear that the 2012 Federal budget is going to involve some heavy cost-cutting. And infrastructure dollars have been getting harder and harder to find at the local level for some time. So I’d like to suggest that we consider promoting cycling as a…
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Thinking about solutions for the Beaverton-Wilsonville corridor
A discussion of possible solutions to the Beaverton/Wilsonville corridor.
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Streetcars go to the White House
Well, at least to the White House web site. I suspect this is the first time that video from a gathering I was at made it to such an august location on the internet… goose bumps over the “vision thing”.
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A performance-based comparison of different transit technologies
A table summarizing the performance of several different bus and rail transit services around the world.
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Would Curbside Inter-city Bus Service Fly Here?
I saw an interesting article in Business Week over the weekend, about Megabus, the largest of a set of companys providing city-to-city bus service in the mid-West and on the East Coast (similar in some ways to the “Chinatown buses” that go between New York and Boston). It’s an interesting model, based on low prices…