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Join Me in Supporting Sunday Parkways
Portland has announced the schedule for Sunday Parkways this year (its fifth year). And as in prior years, perhaps even more important this year because of the City budget, the request for fundraising has gone out as well. Last week I made my contribution of $100 to the “Every Dollar Counts” campaign for Sunday Parkways.…
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Our Occasional CRC Update
The Columbia River Crossing is the project that keeps on giving. Some recent developments and opinions: The Columbian reports that the City of Vancouver is blocking a C-Tran public vote on funding for light rail operations – continuing the trend of doing everything possible to avoid confronting actually paying for this bridge. Ethan Seltzer points…
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TriMet releases final* FY13 budget, cuts (UPDATEDx2)
Release here. Appears to have the same stuff as before, with a few other service notes. * The 9 will only serve Powell Boulevard. The Northeast segment of the 9 will be combined with the 17. This was previously hinted at, but is now official. * TriMet will add service on lines 4, 9, 33,…
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One Idea for Efficient Bus Service: No More Feeders
Scotty has put out the call for ideas to improve the efficiency of bus service in the Portland region, and I encourage everyone to submit your ideas in the comment thread. I would like to take this opportunity to submit one idea for more efficient bus service: eliminate feeder routes wherever possible by combining them…
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Digging Into TriMet’s Proposed Service Changes: Washington County Edition
Last month, Zef covered in detail TriMet’s proposed service changes to both NE and NW Portland. (He also had some additional thoughts on the cuts as a whole over at Portland Afoot, see also here). Zef is unfamiliar with Washington County, so we agreed that I would do the article about the proposed changes affecting…