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Who’d pay billions to buy 30 seconds?
Our own Scott Bricker has an opinion piece in today’s Oregonian questioning the value of the incremental investment of $6B suggested by the Cost of Congestion study.
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A History Lesson Preceding the RTP
As part of the introduction to last week’s workshop scoping out the process or updating the Regional Transportation Plan, Metro President David Bragdon gave a history lesson, recounting how the way in which the nation has paid for its transportation infrastructure has varied greatly over history, going through phases roughly every fifty years. The suggestion…
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Perspectives on the RTP Update
Last Thursday Metro held a workshop to begin scoping the process for updating the Regional Transportation Plan. A number of Portland Transport contributors participated, and you’ll be reading a number of perspectives on the update over the next few days. Last Thursday Metro convened 100 leaders and local politicians to kick off the Regional Transportation…
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A New Process for a New Regional Transportation Plan?
I’ve been banging the drum lately that citizens should get involved very early in policy development to have maximum impact, so they’re not left asking “when did that decision get made?” Well, here’s a golden opportunity. The Metro Council has been saying that this update to the Regional Transportation Plan will be different – we’re…
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Citizens, Pay Attention!
A few weeks ago I tried to answer the question of when was the decision to put Light Rail on the Transit Mall was really made. I opined that these were continuous processes rather than discrete events (the adoption of a Locally Preferred Alternative is the discrete decision, but the consensus building along the way…