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Modal Attitudes
Via a tweet from BTA Executive Director Rob Sadoswky, a fascinating review of sources of attitudes about various modes of transportation. So here’s wishing all our readers a Happy New Year with our modal biases suspended… Be safe out there.
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Origin Stories, Continued
Last week I shared a clip of my first bicycle. I continue to work my way through the converted video files from my old family Super-8 movies and suspect I may have found an early influence for my multi-modal transportation obsession. In the summer of 1965 I traveled to New York City with my parents…
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The Danger of Mode-Centrism
News came through this week that the Oregon Bike Summit was being re-christened as the Oregon Active Transportation Summit. Reaction in the twitterverse was critical – some suggested transit was a very different thing from biking and walking, another suggested that if the tent gets too big, “we might start eating each other’s lunch”. I…
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Transcript, ThinkOutLoad program on transit (part 1)
Part one of OPB’s Think Out Loud program on public transportation, with guest Neil McFarlane, GM of TriMet.
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Under New Management: TriMet and the Trust Gap
What ought to be of concern to TriMet’s riders and supporters was Friday’s front page article by Joseph Rose, who covers the transportation beat for the paper. The title says it all: Will TriMet bond measure get the support of those who actually ride TriMet? In the article, Rose (who is quite knowledgeable on the…