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JPACT Ready to Revise Flexible Funds Policy
JPACT is poised to adopt (tomorrow) the recommendations of a task force (PDF, 267K) on how to allocate flexible funds between active transportation and freight projects. It looks to me like the recommendations will limit freight projects to smaller projects that aren’t likely to get funded in other categories. It would appear that this will…
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Playing Devil’s Advocate: What if we wait?
A discussion on the timing of big-ticket capital projects.
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Interesting Argument Over ODOT Alternative Transportation Funds
Bike Portland is reporting today that the Bicycle Transportation Alliance is objecting to a multi-year commitment of most of Portland’s share of state alternative transportation funds to the Portland to Milwaukie LRT project. Interestingly, the Mayor of Portland and a number of other local leaders endorsed the TriMet LRT request.
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A Challenge for Our New PBOT Director
The intertubes lit up with the news on Friday that Mayor Adams’ chief of staff, Tom Miller, would be the new director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation. And it was the topic of gossip in at least one transportation meeting I attended. My immediate reaction was in two parts: 1) Cool – somebody with…
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Active Transportation Investments to Follow Light Rail Model?
An interesting notice from Metro yesterday that the committee established to recommend policy on how to allocate flexible funds has come out with a recommendation: allocate funds for active transportation to build out complete corridors, rather than to a variety of projects: Some refer to this as “the light rail model” because of the way…