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Opportunity to hear Vancouver’s Gordon Price tonight
Former Vancouver, B.C. City Councilor Gordon Price will address the PSU/PDOT Traffic and Transportation class tonight and the public is invited: The Portland Office of Transportation’s “Traffic & Transportation” course invites you to join the class for an evening! Gordon Price, adjunct professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of…
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Peak Oil Conference in Denver
The first national conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA was held this weekend in Denver. I went for two reasons: first, this conference was sponsored by Denver Mayor Hickenlooper and included as attendees bankers, oil and gas company executives, as well as other elected officials; and, second, it included specific discussion…
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Gaia in a Knockout
Correspondent Rick Browning, recently back from Japan, is now in South Florida helping his mother recover from Hurricane Wilma. Gaia has literally as well as figuratively clouted the car! Trees smash cars! See photos.
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Beyond the Woonerf, Evolution of Cycling in the Netherlands
After being dazzled by the prevalence of bicycles here, once my head stopped spinning, I couldn’t help but wonder “how did this come to be?” We got some of the answers yesterday with presentations from Amsterdam’s bicycle coordinator and a representative of an NGO whose mission is to help other countries adapt the Netherland’s learnings…
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It’s All in How You Frame the Question: Columbia Crossing Open House
www.flickr.com portlandtransport’s Columbia Crossing 2 photoset I attended the Columbia River Crossing open house on Saturday (Oct 22, 2005). For those who may be interested, there are two more open houses scheduled on October 25th and 27th (details). My first impression was that the sign you first encounter framed the question as one of congestion…