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What Can Europe Teach Us About Walking?
The PSU transportation seminars are back for the fall! Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. John Pucher, Rutgers University Topic: Promoting Safe Walking and Cycling to Improve Public Health: Lessons from Europe When: Friday, September 28, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center
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Who Will Carry the Torch for a Willamette Shoreline Trail?
As the Willamette Shoreline Transit/Trail analysis proceeds to a Locally Preferred Alignment decision in September, it’s becoming evident that the trail component is going to be a challenge. There simply is not enough width in the right of way in some spots (tunnel, trestle, etc.) to accommodate both rail and trail. The work-arounds to this…
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How Walkable is Your Neighborhood?
There’s an interesting new Google Maps Mashup called Walk Score that looks at how far it is from any given address to key services like a grocery store, drugstore, schools, parks, etc. and computes a walkability score. Mine was 95 out of 100 :-) Note that the site has had some problems with heavy traffic…
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Feeling Empowered
I must say I am pleasantly surprised by the personal impact (on me) of the new crosswalks on NW 23rd. Now I’m a fairly assertive pedestrian. I’ll walk out into a crosswalk if there is a reasonable gap and hold out my hand to stop the cars (as is my right under Oregon law if…
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Back Seat [Scary] Ignorance
OK, I will cop to a guilty pleasure. On Mondays I read the “Back Seat” (commuting) column in the Oregonian. Not because I expect to learn anything about transportation policy, but because I sometimes enjoy the sophomoric wit. But mainly because I get to see what people are asking about. Monday’s letter was very scary:…