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Someone Came Away Impressed
The International Downtown Association conference was here in Portland last week. One delegate from South Africa, Neil Fraser, came away impressed with Portland (including our transportation system) and wrote about it back home. Now if only our local downtown association were as impressed.
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Business Journal Poll
Update: 10/9/06 The poll results were published in this week’s edition. While I-5 came in first with 48%, the second highest-rated category was ‘other’, with a number of comments about alternative modes. Highway 26 and I-84 trailed with 15% and 7% respectively. Original Post: 9/28/06 The Business Journal is conducting a poll on the region’s…
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PSU Transportation Seminars Return
The Fall seminar series is starting this Friday: Speaker: Yibing Wang, Technical University of Crete Topic: A Generic Approach to Real-time Freeway Network Traffic Surveillance When: Friday, September 29, 2006, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center (www.pdx.edu/map.html)
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Transportion Options Job
Transportation Options is hiring for a limited term Transportation Demand Management Specialist I to work on our Portland Smart Trips – Downtown program. This program is modeled after our successful individualized marketing programs called the Eastside Hub and Northeast Hub. We will be working with downtown employers and their employees to encourage more people to…
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Attitude in Washington County
There’s a new report available about attitudes toward transportation in Washington County (PDF, 669K), based on data collected from 403 interviews this spring. There are a number of interesting tidbits in this report: Transportation issues are top-of-mind for two-thirds of respondents. Education was second at 34%. The system is better than it was ten years…