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More Sellwood Meetings
Aaron has a nice piece on his blog, Transportation Innovations, about the current state of the Sellwood Bridge process. Which is a nice segue into the next two meetings in the process: On Monday, November 6 the project’s Community Task Force will meet from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm at Sellwood Baptist Church, 1104 SE…
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RTP Exercise – Challenges – Free Market
What are some of the challenges to achieving these outcomes: Organizational Leadership is increased for business and related transit oriented development. Overall subsidization of the transit systems (including roadways) decreases by at least 50% at the state levels and users provide more representative costs. Companies locate downtown in greater number. Sprawl is minimalized and density is…
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Transit Mall Plans: A new pain in the S?
Frequently in comments on this blog, I’ve stressed the importance of actually going to meetings. It appears I should have heeded my own advice: Although I’ve attended the vast majority of meetings regarding the Transit Mall light rail project, my work and travel schedules have largely required me to take a break since September. I…
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RTP Exercise – What’s Working – Free Market Scenario
Adron has compiled his list of outcomes in a less government-interventionist scenario, so we’ll run this set of outcomes through the same three questions, starting with what’s working? Organizational Leadership is increased for business and related transit oriented development. Overall subsidization of the transit systems (including roadways) decreases by at least 50% at the state…
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RTP Exercise – Solutions – Compact Development
We’ve discussed what’s working, we’ve discussed the challenges, now the final question for the exercise is how do we get there? What are the solutions that will get us to our outcomes? “Compact Development” scenario outcomes: A seven-year-old on a bike should be able to safely and comfortably travel from his/her home to an elementary…