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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…
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Bike Parking Disconnect
I spent some fun time this afternoon at the Pedal Nation bike show at the Convention Center. I had noted some tweets yesterday about overflowing bike parking outside, even though event parking had been added. Here’s what I found today, outside the front door and inside the parking structure where bike parking is also provided:…
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KBOO Bike Show: Going National
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.4MB) Michelle and Tori talk with a range of cycling leaders from around the country including: Randy Neufield, National advocate with the SRAM Cycling Fund Timothy Papandreou, Deputy Director of Transportation Planning for the Sustainable Streets Division of San Francisco’s Municipal Transit Agency Charles Gandy, Mobility Coordinator, City of Long…
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Gabe x2
Gabe Klein, former director of the DC Department of Transportation will be giving not one, but two seminars at PSU on Friday. Both will be webcast: Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Gabe Klein, Former Director of Washington, DC Department of Transportation Topic: The Past, Present and Future…
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Best of Class BRT
Here’s a Streetfilm about the BRT system in Guangzhou, China. The system has a number of attributes worth emulating: Pre-boarding payment – ala Curitiba Direct routing – buses enter and leave the BRT corridor Bicycle facilities constructed in coordination with the transit corridor A bike share system integrated with the transit system An integrated payment…