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Help for Transit?
According to T4America, there are a pair of bills in the House and Senate that would provide flexibility to allow transit agencies to use some of their formula funds for operations. How might TriMet apply this? I’m not entirely up-to-speed on the TriMet budget. How do the section 5307 funds get spent today? Bus purchases?…
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Blumenauer Chastises JPACT
Apparently Earl doesn’t think Metro’s Joint Policy Advisory Committee has sent a clear message to the Feds on what project(s) they’d like to see win funding from the Tiger III grant process. The region submitted five projects. Earl appears to believe we should have called out one as the key priority. Interesting. Usually the region…
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Ray LaHood endorses CRC
In an interview with KGW-TV’s Tracy Barry (who also scored an interview with President Obama), Transportation secretary Ray LaHood today praised the Columbia River Crossing and stated that “the Northwest could count on big federal support for a new I-5 bridge across the Columbia River if President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act is passed by…
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Tolling Tech
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Christopher Garlick (Atkins North America) Topic: Gasless and Cashless Take a Toll: Sustainable and Non-Stop Mobility through User Fees When: Friday, October 14, 2011, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
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Call to Action on Transportation Re-authorization
Transportation for America has an action page to encourage the Senate to take a different path on the 6-year transportation re-authorization: Late last week the House released the outline of their transportation bill, which would cut total transportation funding by one-third, kill the tiny slice of dedicated funding for safer walking and biking, slash transit…