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Join Metro, See the World
Last year I had the chance to join a group of regional leaders on a Metro-organized tour of the suburban communities of Vancouver, BC. It was a great experience, and now a follow-up is being organized. So if you’d like to see what’s working (and what’s not) in BC, here’s the scoop. I highly recommend…
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Outlook
The Sunday Oregonian had a full section on the outlook for transportation (they also had outlook sections for a number of other hours). What do we think, did they get it right?
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It’s All About Education
The program variously known as “Travel Smart”, “Smart Trips” and in this incarnation “The Northeast Hub” has demonstrated that education and outreach programs can be much more effective dollar for dollar than building more infrastructure. Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Dan Bower, City of Portland Department of…
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Streetcar Vision in Print
Reconnecting America has just published Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the 21st Century. As you might imagine, it features a lot of material from Portland, and it is also visually beautiful. Every Streetcar fan should have one. You can order it online and it is also available at Powells (it does not have an…
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Creative Re-use of Rails
Passed on by a reader. I don’t know quite what to make of it.