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Mission and Devolution of Transit
The most recent episode of the Strong Towns podcast is particularly thought-provoking. It presents a panel discussion held off-site during the recent Railvolution conference. The panel includes some well-know transportation bloggers: Jeff Wood (The Overhead Wire) and Jonah Freemark (The Transport Politic). The topics are wide-ranging and challenge some sacred cows. Two themes I found…
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Frequent Services on 122nd Needs an $8M Ante from the City of Portland
An interesting sidebar in today’s Council work session on the street fee: TriMet could justify (and pay for the service hours) upgrading 122nd Avenue to Frequent Service if a series of safety and access improvement were made by the City to help draw ridership from the surrounding area. The cost of those improves is about…
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Requiem for a Greenway
It was after 6:30, so the bulk of the evening rush had come and gone. Clinton Street would be quiet, relaxing, exhilarating…like the olden days. Or so I thought. Before I’d even ridden a block, I got the all-too familiar “Clinton Street Salute:” a car zipping around me too quickly and too closely. It presaged…
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Rethinking transit on the west side
No, this is not a post about the Southwest Corridor project, though that is certainly a relevant topic here. Instead, it’s an update on the Service Enhancement Plans covering the west side of town, both the Westside SEP (covering Beaverton, Aloha, Hillsboro, Cornelius, Forest Grove, Cedar Mill, Cedar Hills, and Bethany), and the Southwest…
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Another Perspective on Mobility
A regular reader has alerted us to this course, applying Design Thinking to mobility issues. Portland_October2014_NCMM_DesignThinkingTraining_Flyer