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Calling All Wonks
Scotty hit it in the open thread for this month, but I want to reinforce it – Metro is taking applications for three seats on TPAC – the “Transportation Policy Alternatives Committee”. As I suspect I’ve mentioned before, TPAC is one of the places where I got my education in transportation policy. Six citizens have…
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Designing for Health (and other good stuff)
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Andrew Dannenberg (University of Washington / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Topic: Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability When: Friday, October 7, 2011, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room…
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Dissent of the Day: Bikes vs transit?
As mentioned in the comments for the Monomodal fixation disorder article, Jarrett Walker at Human Transit did a followup article on the subject. In the responses to that article, Human Transit commentor Eric Fischer said something quite interesting: For some bike people, the issue is that they fear being hit by large, fast, heavy vehicles…
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The Technology Keeps Getting Better
The folks at Sightline wrote it up before I could. Two new apps help us make better transportation choices: The folks at Walkscore have a tool that helps you figure out the places from which you can commute to a job in a given amount of time, billed as “Apartment Search“. Reroute.it will calculate the…