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Five reasons why BRT may have advantages over rail
Once more into the bus/rail breech, my friends. In various comments and articles, I’ve enumerated various advantages that bus rapid transit has over equivalent-service rail in some circumstances; this post is simply a collection of these. It doesn’t constitute an endorsement of bus over rail for any specific project or system, hence the word “may”…
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Tell the Governor What You Think!
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance has an action alert to help defend dedicated funding categories for active transportation as ODOT reorganizes its budget. From the Twitterverse: Oregon could loose millions of dollars for #pdxbikes. Take 30 seconds to sign this petition to @GovKitz – http://t.co/pLBwAoNn
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President Obama expedites the CRC (corrected)
Note: The original version of this article identified the source as Oregonian reporter Joseph Rose; the Oregonian article was written by Charles Pope. Portland Transport regrets the error. This evening, Joseph Rose Charles Pope reported that President Obama has ordered the $3.5B Columbia River Crossing to be given “expedited” status. While not providing any additional…
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82nd Avenue Transportation Workshop
From the Active Rights of Way (AROW) mailing list: If you are interested in improving 82nd Avenue, please get this meeting on your calendar; September 24 at 7:00 PM. One of the often mentioned obstacles to improving 82nd Avenue is that it’s under ODOT jurisdiction. Your attendance at this meeting will help give our public…