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Mayor Calls for Safer Streets and Sidewalks
And he’s not talking about traffic safety… Dear Community Members, I’m pleased to announce the Street Access for Everyone (SAFE) Initiative. At next week’s Council session, I’ll be introducing a resolution to find citywide solutions to the issues of street disorder and sidewalk nuisances. I’ve been hearing concerns from the business community and residents-downtown and…
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Did We Just Pave Over a Woonerf?
The May issue of the NW Examiner reports that students at the Pacific NW College of Art are complaining that traffic speeds are unsafe on the newly paved NW 13th Ave. PNCA students are seeking better enforcement of traffic speed and of failure to obey stop signs. They also want “traffic pacifying devices that will…
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Japanese Streetscapes Redux
For those of you who missed Portland Transport contributor Rick Browning’s presentation of his research on Japanese Streetscapes, you’re in luck. Rick is giving pretty much the same presentation in a couple of other venues: Tuesday 4/25 SE Uplift (neighborhood coalition) – 3534 SE Main 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Call Steve Hoyt at 503/232-0010…
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Toto, We’re Not in Portland Anymore
Lest it be said that I have never followed Jack Bogdanski’s lead, I’m in San Diego this week, at a professional conference for my day job. Of course, I can’t help making a few observations about my transportation environment. I’m staying in the Gaslamp district, so please don’t generalize beyond that specific area. Here’s the…
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Japanese Streetscapes
Portland Transport contributor Rick Browning will be giving a brown bag talk about his recent research trip to Japan: About the presentation, Rick says: I was the Architectural Foundation of Oregon’s (AFO) 2004 Van Evera Bailey fellowship recipient and my rather unconventional study (not watercolors in Tuscany, anyway) involved travel to 8 major and not…