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Open Houses for Portland-to-Lake Oswego Transit DEIS
From Metro: Metro, along with the cities of Portland and Lake Oswego, Multnomah and Clackamas counties, TriMet and ODOT, have studied transit alternatives to connect Lake Oswego with downtown Portland. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) examines potential impacts and benefits associated with an enhanced bus alternative, streetcar alternative and a no-build alternative where existing…
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Another Transportation Appliance In the Wild
This holiday season, I’m thankful for the assistance of the PBOT Signals Group (the same folks who bring you Traffic Signals and Street Lighting) who figured out how to help us get a Transit Appliance into the lobby of the Portland Building without violating any City network security policies! The appliance will be beaming bus…
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Fungible Parking?
I ran across an interesting pair of blog posts last week on the “Reinventing Parking” blog. One asks whether government could tone down the idea of “parking minimums” (parking that is required to be built as part of a new development) by requiring instead that developers simply identify features of their project that could be…