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Find Your Transit App
The folks who brought you WalkScore now bring you City-Go-Round which will help you find transit information applications for your city or region (also biking, walking and driving apps) and will further tell you which transit agencies near you provide open data (kudos to TriMet for starting the trend).
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JPACT Adopts Weak Greenhouse Gas Policy for RTP
The Portland Mercury is reporting that at this morning’s Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation meeting, the committee rejected an amendment from Mayor Adams to review the project list for climate impacts, while adopting a weaker amendment by Councilor Rex Burkholder. The weaker language postpones any real impact by climate analysis on actual investments until…
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An Annual Pleasure
Every December I look forward to reviewing project presentations at the PSU/PBOT Traffic and Transportation class, and then publishing them here. Another great crop of projects this year. Here are six of them. I will feature one special one in a few days! Alexis Grant wants to make rail crossings around the city safer for…
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AWOL at the Portland Plan Workshops: Congestion Mitigation
One of the questions asked at the Portland Plan workshops is where the City should focus its limited transportation resources. Different groups have had different top priorities: some favor transit, some sidewalks, one group said bikes. But in all six workshops so far, congestion mitigation has been near the bottom, including at the downtown workshop…