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Time to Rethink How We Zone Parking?
Sarah Mirk has an interesting piece in this week’s Mercury in which she talks about the proposed parking plan for the Central Eastside (including some metering, which of course, everyone loves). But the fascinating part is the amount of parking that exists in the district. She documents 400+ parking lots with 14,000+ spaces. Only 8%…
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CRC Slips a Year
One of our correspondents attending the meeting at the Columbia River Crossing oversight committee at the Oregon Legislature reports that WSDOT officials said multiple times that construction would start at the “end of 2014”. While it was not acknowledged as such, that represents a year delay in previously communicated schedules.
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SW Corridor Purpose and Need
Scotty recently had a great discussion about the importance of the Purpose and Need statement for a project. Last week, the steering committee for the SW Corridor Plan met to discuss the draft Purpose and Need statement for the project. Here’s the agenda packet (PDF 4M) for that meeting. It contains both the draft Purpose…
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Oregonian Ready to Drop Binding Arbitration for TriMet and ATU
And they’d like the Legislature to fix it. “Binding arbitration is a high-stakes game of chance that could produce a terrible result for TriMet and the people who rely upon its services. It’s also unnecessary. The Legislature made an enormous blunder in 2007, when it voted in strongly bipartisan fashion to treat transportation workers like…
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Reader Question: Why does TriMet run the 84?
A Portland Transport reader (who may identify himself in the comments if he wishes to) emailed in the following question:Dear PortlandTransport, Now that I know PortlandTransport has a whole stable of contributors, I am wondering if any of you may know the skinny on line 84. The other day I was looking at the TriMet…