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Confessions of a Consequentialist
OK, I admit it, I sometimes jay-walk. In fact a few weeks ago I jay-walked in front of the Oregon Attorney General – I thought he was going to arrest me… I also roll my bike through stop signs without putting a foot down on occasion. But I only do these things in specific situations.…
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Priceless Portland?
Over at Human Transit, Jerrett is suggesting that Portland is luring folks with a set of “unmeasurable” attributes: People do go Portland for the lifestyle at every point on the economic ladder. That includes the young unemployed … I connect that to the remarkably womblike quality of Portland’s physical environment. The gentle embrace of the…
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Potpourri
The Daily Journal of Commerce has listed its Top 10 Transportation Projects and it leads with a favorite of mine. But my favorite is their name for the Columbia River Crossing – they call it the “Goldilocks Project” because it’s either too big or too small…
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Since You Asked
Last week on the thread talking about a “10 best” list of transportation blogs, I was asked what I read. Well, here’s the list, straight from my RSS reader: “Talking Transportation” – http://talkingtransportation.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Innovative Transport – http://innovativetransport.blogspot.com/atom.xml America’s Best Transit System – http://community.livejournal.com/trimet/data/atom AMSTERDAMIZE – http://amsterdamize.com/feed/ BTA Blog – http://www.bta4bikes.org/btablog/feed/atom/ BUILD IT – http://www.portlandbikenetwork.org/feed/rss/ C.I.C.L.E.…
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Vanity
I’ll admit that when I saw this list of “10 essential transportation blogs” that my ego was big enough that I scanned the list to see if we were listed. I take some consolation from the fact that none of the entries are specific to a given geographic location, so it may not be the…