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Make Walk Score Better
Our recent post on the ‘Street Smart’ Walk Score brought lots of comments about issues with the quality of the ‘places’ used to computer the rankings. Well, now Walk Score has a tool to add and remove places.
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KBOO Bike Show: OHSU Injury Study
Listen to the show (mp3, 26.3MB) Sara and Michelle interview Dr. William Lambert, the researcher behind the OHSU Bike Trauma Study.
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Walkscore Getting Smarter
One of the criticisms of Walkscore has been that it used “as-the-crow-flies” distance calculations to amenities, so addresses got credit for access to amenities that might not actually be accessible by foot (on the other side of a freeway for example). Well, that’s changing. There’s now a beta of a version that calculates actual walking…
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Looking to State to Plug Milwaukie Gap?
I heard third hand today that Metro and TriMet made a pitch to the Oregon Transportation Commission today to make a multi-year commitment of flexible funds (Federal I assume) to help close the funding gap on the Portland-to-Milwaukie LRT project. Anyone have first hand details?
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Beyond the Bike Hook
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Colin Maher, TriMet Topic: Beyond the Bike Hook: Linking Bicycles and Transit Abstract: While TriMet and other transit agencies serve many commuters by having racks for bikes on trains and buses, large bike parking facilities in global capitals of urban bicycling provide…