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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…
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The Addressable, Queryable Bus Stop?
Sometimes as I’m browsing through the too many RSS feeds I subscribe to, I’m struck by an interesting intersection between two items from different sources. That happened this weekend when I noted this comment (from regular commenter Dave H) on the open thread: I’m not sure if anyone here is familiar with QR Codes, but…
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Pedestrian Safety Bill at the Legislature
A note from Portland’s Pedestrian Advisory Committee (PAC): Senate Bill 424 has a Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Tuesday March 29, 8:30 AM. This is the Crosswalk Safety Bill (formerly known as the Hand Signal Bill) requested by the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition. In past years, the PAC has encouraged and supported this legislation.…
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Improving transit speed downtown
A discussion of ways to improve the speed of transit downtown–and a discussion as to whether that should be a priority.