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One Place for All Your High-Speed Rail News
The good folks at Planetizen have created a news hub for High-Speed Rail: A New Hub for High-Speed Rail News With high-speed rail capturing the public’s imagination, Planetizen is pleased to launch a new website dedicated to covering high-speed rail in the United States. HSR News (http://www.hsrnews.com) will be a centralized source of information and…
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Join Me in Volunteering for a Sunday Parkway
The City of Portland is hosting FIVE Sunday Parkway events this summer. These amazing events celebrate community and remind us that streets are for people, not just cars. And they’re a great way to get someone on a bicycle for the first time (or back on a bike after a long time). But these are…
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Continuing to Invest in our Local Streetcar Manufacturing Capacity
The good news this morning is that the Federal Transit Administration has awarded $2.4M to TriMet (most of it will eventually flow to Oregon Iron Works) for the purpose of using our prototype streetcar to investigate and develop: A U.S.-made (Rockwell) propulsion system Battery technology that would allow the vehicle to operate for some distance…
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Perspectives on Bikes and Transit
Last year I had the opportunity to help draft the chapter on bicycle and transit integration in the Portland Bicycle Plan for 2035. So when I learned that a University of Colorado researcher was organizing a focus group on the topic here in Portland, I asked for the chance to sit in. A couple of…
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KBOO Bike Show: North Portland Greenway
Listen to the show (mp3, 26.0MB) Learn all about “npGreenway” the proposed trail from St. Johns to downtown.