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Looking at Equity Nationally
Equity has been on my mind quite a bit. The Portland Plan is making equal distribution of the benefits and burdens of public services and infrastructure a major focus. And of course, our equity analysis project is intended to be a deep dive on how equitably transit service is distributed around the region. Now T4America…
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TriMet and the Trust Gap, Part 2
Tuesday morning’s article, Under New Management: TriMet and the Trust Gap, sparked a lot of discussion–so much so that a followup article is in order. While it would be foolish to pretend that portlandtransport.com’s readers are representative sample of the wider community–the contributors here are self-selected for an interest in transit, whether pro or con–quite…
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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…
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Transit Equity: Demographics and the Beginning of Correlation
Things got busy, so it took me until this weekend to download demographic data to go with our Transit Scores for census tracts. Before we go any further, I want to make some caveats VERY clear: The demographics are ten years old (2000 census) The scale is coarse, we probably ultimately want block group level…
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Oregonian opposes TriMet bond measure 26-119
In this morning’s Oregonian, the editorial board came out against Measure 26-119, the TriMet sponsored bond measure which would continue the soon-to-expire Westside MAX bonds, in order to pay for numerous enhancements to the bus system, particularly to help out the disabled.