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Portland to Astoria via Tillamook
Thanks to the correspondent who writes that you can get from Portland to Astoria via TriMet, the Tillamook County Transportation District and the Sunset Empire Transportation District purely on scheduled transit. But the real news is that you can plan the entire trip on Google Transit. That’s the value of standards and open data. Let’s…
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Help Shape Regional Transportation Policy
Metro is recruiting for citizen representatives to serve on TPAC. To be sure, it’s heavily technocratic, but the several years I spent on TPAC were a tremendous learning experience, and you do get to nudge a little bit on the direction of policy: September 18, 2009 Dear TPAC Interested Parties: The Transportation Policy Alternatives Committee…
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Sam Backs Away from 12 Lanes on CRC
Update: here’s the full text of Sam’s statement. The Oregonian is reporting that Portland Mayor Sam Adams will release a statement today withdrawing his support for a 12-lane Columbia River Crossing configuration. Meanwhile, members of the local project sponsors council are making clear that the cost of the project must be reduced. “What they’ve cooked…