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PBOT Getting Into Parklets?
Looks like the City is rolling out a “Street Seats” program where you too can turn a parking space into a little bit of urbanism. Let’s hope the pilot program gets some traction. Congratulations to Rebecca Hamilton who pitched this idea as a student project in the Traffic and Transportation class in 2010!
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A few new TriMet service surprises
TriMet has now announced all the details (i.e. detailed schedules) of its service changes which will take affect Sept 2. While most of the changes should be no surprise, given the intense debate over them back during the spring budget discussions, there are a few interesting surprises. Cameron Johnson has a good write-up over at…
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How the Feds COULD help urban transit operations*
*without spending any money. I put “COULD” in all-caps because it’s not clear there is much interest in DC for doing so, for various reasons. It took forever to pass a transportation bill, and the one that did pass wasn’t particularly friendly to transit: the Administration wanted any sort of stimulus it could get and…
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Transit Board(tm): New and Improved
The original Transit Board UI The Transit Board™ display application has been the primary display mode for our Transit Appliance project, featuring a paging display ordered by the timing of vehicle arrival. It has served us well, but it’s not perfect. The display was somewhat busy and – especially when trying to display many lines…