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Getting Transit into the Jobs Bill
This from Transportation for America: We just got word from our team on Capitol Hill – despite the massive blizzard bearing down on the East Coast this week, the Senate is pushing forward on an $85 billion jobs bill. But the draft being circulated has not a single dollar to address the crisis in transit…
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First Eastside Streetcar Rails Go Down Today
I just learned that the first segment of rail for the Streetcar Loop project will be laid on NE Grand today!
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Streetcar System Plan Wins Award
The American Council of Engineering Companies of Oregon has awarded an excellence award to the Portland Streetcar System Concept Plan. Congratulations to the staff, consultant team and to the System Advisory Committee!
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Intellectual Freedom at Work
I can’t help but note the irony, and admire the freedom of discourse, that Randall O’Toole will appear at Powell’s on Friday to promote his book that criticizes urban transit lines. From the publisher’s comments: As a result, the automobile which is accessible to almost every family in the nation and provides unparalleled access to…
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Serendipitous Transit Center
A silver lining in every cloud… Due to the sewer and street reconstruction on NW 23rd the #15 bus has been re-routed down NW 21st. While annoying, this has temporarily created something that I’ve always though NW needed: a transit center. Four transit lines pass next to Good Samaritan Hospital but don’t actually meet in…