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AORTA Continues to Engage FTA
AORTA isn’t standing down in its critique of the Transit Mall design. Here are their rebuttal to TriMet’s points (PDF, 48K) and a follow-up letter to the FTA (PDF, 52K).
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CRC Task Force Has Trouble Crossing Decision Point
It was a busy meeting for the Columbia River Task Force last night. Their task was to vote on the crossing and transit components to move forward to the next round of analysis. They didn’t get very far. Concerns were raised about the level of outreach in the public comment process (indeed, Portland Transport’s comments,…
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A History Lesson Preceding the RTP
As part of the introduction to last week’s workshop scoping out the process or updating the Regional Transportation Plan, Metro President David Bragdon gave a history lesson, recounting how the way in which the nation has paid for its transportation infrastructure has varied greatly over history, going through phases roughly every fifty years. The suggestion…
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FTA not Sympathetic to AORTA Request
A week or so ago, there was a small blurb in the Tribune that the Federal Transit Administration had rejected AORTA’s call for an independent review of the Transit Mall LRT project. Portland Transport requested a copy of the FTA response from TriMet. Here’s a scan of the letter (PDF 1.1M). Cutting to the bottom…
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Perspectives on the RTP Update
Last Thursday Metro held a workshop to begin scoping the process for updating the Regional Transportation Plan. A number of Portland Transport contributors participated, and you’ll be reading a number of perspectives on the update over the next few days. Last Thursday Metro convened 100 leaders and local politicians to kick off the Regional Transportation…