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CRC Peer Review Unlikely to Convince Skeptics
Saturday’s Oregon reports on the presentation of a peer review panel of “leading traffic forecasters from Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas and Sacramento”. The panel’s conclusion: A bridge with double the current number of lanes would have “minimal” impact on growth, the panel concluded, even though the project would nearly eliminate the evening rush-hour for commuters from…
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Least Cost Planning
The annual Oregon Business Plan Summit is next week, and in advance of the meeting they’ve published a discussion paper on transportation (PDF, 138K). I find one point especially refreshing: 3. Develop new transportation planning and project selection tools to assure that each dollar spent on new transportation capacity achieves the greatest return on investment.…