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KBOO Bike Show: Affordable Transportation
Listen to the show (mp3, 26.1MB) Alon and Christopher talk with Kate Nelson of Santa Fe’s Chainbreaker Collective about the importance of affordable transportation and their efforts to make bicycles available to lower-income individuals. In the second half they speak with Sirapon Soinak of Thailand who has cycled all over the world.
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A Thumbs Up for Portland’s Street Grid
A recent study (sadly, one you have to pay for to get the full report), suggests that a compact street grid supports greater levels of physical activity and leads to better health outcomes. Three cheers for 200 foot blocks!
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Rose Bowl 2015 Open Thread
Happy New Year! There’s a little football game happening next week. Of course, yours truly is an Oregon State alum, so I’m not quite as excited about that as some of you… More public outreach on the Powell/Division project, as Metro asks southeast residents about safety. TriMet is touting a 3.2% increase in ridership last…
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Could Bus Multiple Units (BMU)s bridge the bus-rail divide?
Here at Portland Transport, we (both editors and commenters) frequently like to engage in a bit of technical speculation, hoping for future improvements that will allow transit agencies to do more with less. There’s lots of talk around here about electric buses, of driverless vehicles, of different vehicle configurations, and even more exotic concepts like…
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The Future is Bright
One of the pleasures of my holiday season each year is serving on the panel reviewing presentations at the PBOT/PSU Transportation Class. It gives me great hope for the future that we are creating a regular stream of transportation advocates who will keep making our streets better and safer. This year is no exception: Alexis…