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Council Throws Wet Blanket on Flexcar
City Council moved forward yesterday on what this activist testified was a “penny-wise and pound-foolish” policy to seek full cost recovery for metered parking spaces from car-sharing companies (of which we have exactly one in Portland at the moment: Flexcar). The move will also cap the number of parking spaces in meter districts and limits…
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Flexcar Policy at City Council Tomorrow
For those of you who followed our discussion of City policy on use of on-street parking spaces for car-sharing, the proposed policy is on the City Council agenda for 9:30 tomorrow (6/21) time-certain [time certain means it can’t start before that time, it will almost certainly start a few minutes later]. Come down and share…
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Trans Trib
It almost seems that today’s Portland Tribune is only about transportation! Discussion of shelters for the new transit mall. Is the business community trying to unshelter the mall? Regular Portland Transport contributor Bob Richardson is quoted. New development is cutting off connections in the SW Trail network. This network serves as an alternative to the…
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Parking in Neighborhood Business Districts
I seem to have gotten myself prominently quoted in yesterday’s Tribune on parking in NW Portland. In the same issue, there is an article on Sam Adams’ efforts to get paid parking in more business districts (more info on Sam’s blog). Believe it or not, my neighborhood is actually an argument in favor of Sam’s…
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Guerrilla Reclamation of Parking
Picked up from the SHIFT list, folks are beginning to re-think whether on-street parking spaces are the highest and best use of land. Here are examples in New York and San Francisco. I remember a few years ago in Antwerp, I saw lots of cafes that had their sidewalk seating not in the sidewalk itself,…