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The catch-22 of bicycle safety
As many of you have heard, a few nights ago a 29-year old woman riding her bicycle downtown was struck and killed by a truck. Several weeks ago, an 11-year old boy in Vancouver was struck and killed by a C-TRAN bus. The response in more than a few media sources was “oh dear, urban…
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Celebrating in SE
It would appear the Feds are about to open up the piggy bank for their share of the Portland-to-Milwaukie Light Rail line.
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Open Data Guide
Transit, both schedule data and real-time vehicle location (AVL – Automatic Vehicle Location) data, has been the poster child and first set of killer apps for open government data. Here’s a nice survey article on the topic: http://wagner.nyu.edu/blog/rudincenter/open_data_guide/
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Car-sharing and the RAND corporation.
Today, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post highlighted a RAND Corporation report claiming that car-sharing cuts back very little on energy consumption. One major flaw in the analysis: The conclusion is based on the principle that most car-share users are non-car-owners who already drive infrequently–fair enough. It then poses the hypothetical about 20% of the…
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UPDATED: LIFT service affected by transit strike
UPDATE: KOIN reports that a tentative deal has been reached. Terms of the deal have not been released pending ratification. Original message content after the jump.