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Infrastructure on the Radio
Tonight the first 15 minutes of All Things Considered was about our crumbling infrastructure, our unwillingness to pay for fixing/expanding it and the economic absurdity of this choice. I sort of feel like our society maxed out its credit cards for a week in Cancun, is now back home and hung over and has decided…
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What Point in our Region Has the Most Access to Destinations via Transit?
According to the work for our Transit Equity project, SW 10th and Yamhill is the winner with a 93 Transit Score. I couldn’t find any points on the Transit Mall higher than 92. My guess is that the access to the additional destinations reached by Streetcar provides a slight edge. Of course our process just…
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Not-to-be-missed Webinar
This summer I enthused about a presentation by Dr. Eric France, a preventative medicine specialist from Kaiser in Denver who was visiting our region to learning about cycling here. Dr. France is back home and is about to give the presentation as a webinar on Monday from 11am-noon (that’s 12-1 Mountain Time). If you didn’t…
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One of the Keys to Sustainable Freight: Full Trucks
I’m serving on a small working group that is trying to develop some high-level ideas for how the City of Portland could encourage more sustainable freight. It’s a little bit of a mind-bender, because all of my urban design sensibilities push for smaller vehicles. But in fact from a fuel efficiency perspective, there is a…