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Bikeability and the Twenty-Minute Neighborhood
I am seriously bummed that I have a conflict. I will catch the video for sure: Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2010 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Nathan McNeil, MURP graduate and Research Associate in the Center for Transportation Studies, Portland State University Topic: Bikeability and the Twenty-Minute Neighborhood: Exploring How Infrastructure and…
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Joe Cortright’s Congestion Smackdown
Local economist Joe Cortright is all over the transportation blogosphere this week. He just produced a report for CEOs for Cities entitled “Driven Apart” that takes apart the Travel Time Index, the most widely published measure of congestion in major U.S. cities. Cortright systematically shows how the index overestimates congestion in cities with compact land…
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Welcome to Streetcar Switch Central
The Streetcar re-opened on Monday after a two-week shutdown to install new track in the Pearl District. A very complicated set of switches, crossovers and merges create the new “Northrup Loop”. I’m celebrating because this represents the culmination of advocacy that I’ve been conducting since the Loop was first proposed shortly after the original alignment…