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Their Masters’ Voice
I’ve been attending the joint MPAC/JPACT workshops on the Regional Transportation Plan. As part of the process they use keypad polling to determine support for various strategies. The responses are tallied in several groups: Policy Makers (elected officials and appointed committee members), staff, and others (mostly advocacy groups and a few citizens). There’s an interesting…
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Updated: Sorting Out South Portland Transportation
Updated: Here’s a diagram of all the projects on the table for South Portland. Lot’s of moving pieces! from PDOT: Open House for South Portland Transportation Projects The City of Portland Office of Transportation is hosting an open house focused on transportation projects (and potential funding for the projects) in the South Portland Neighborhood which…
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Transportation Investment Choices
As part of the New Look/Regional Transportation Plan process, Metro is examining patterns of public infrastructure investments. A joint TPAC/MTAC (the technocratic advisory committees) workshop will be held on Monday, October 13th from 2-4pm in the Metro Council Chambers (600 NE Grand in Portland) to look at scenarios for transportation investment choices.
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Portland Streetcar Loop Visualizations
I recently worked with the Portland Streetcar organization to develop 3D “visualizations” of the new loop route on the eastside, to be shown at public meetings and made available online. The project is a good example of how geographically-oriented data from many sources is converging to help people better-understand their communities and better-communicate ideas. Using…
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Buses to return to transit mall; Public input on routes sought.
As mentioned in the open thread, TriMet has now released it’s preliminary plans for returning buses to the Transit Mall. A series of public meetings will be held to gather input from riders. For full details, visit: http://www.trimet.org/meetings/portlandmall/index.htm A compilation of the comments from the open thread follows the break: