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Can We Consolidate Some of Our On-street Obstacles?
Via Planetizen: Vancouver, B.C., is experimenting with the “V-pole”, a compact pole that combines street lighting with other functions like telecomm, parking paystations, electric vehicle charging and a host of other possibilities. Should we try it here?
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ODOT to launch VMT pilot program in the fall
Laura Bollen-Lopez of The Oregonian reports that ODOT is planning to test a new Vehicle Mileage Tax (VMT) program in the fall. VMT is a tax levied on the number of miles a vehicle drives, independent of fuel consumption, weight, or other factors which are captured (somewhat) by fuel taxes or weight-mile taxes. The pilot…
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Updated: Analyzing Barriers to Cycling
Updated: 6/8/12 The paper behind this presentation is now available (PDF, 6.3M). Original Post: 5/10/12 Last week’s PSU Transportation Seminar was particularly thought-provoking. Peter Furth of Northeastern University has developed a quantitative analysis methodology for evaluating the comfort level of links in a bicycle network (or put another way, how bike-friendly any given street is).…
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KBOO Bike Show: Cycle Touring
Listen to the show (mp3, 27.1MB) This month the bike show hosts Ellee Thalheimer, author of Cycling Sojourner, the first cycle-tour guide to the state of Oregon, as well as Matt Picio, co-founder of Cycle Wild, a group that’s mission is “to connect people with nature via the bicycle” and who organize free cycle trips…
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Metro releases initial proposals for TV Highway
A metro study group has released a list of proposals for improving mobility/access in the TV Highway corridor. The list operates on the assumption that TV Highway will continue to function as an urban boulevard, and will not be converted into a more expressway-like facility, as Washington County planners had envisioned in earlier times. Some…