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PSU Transportation Courses – Winter 2008
We are pleased to announce the transportation courses listed below for Winter 2008 (January 7 through March 21, 2008). You are welcome to enroll in these courses even if you are not a PSU student–use the quick entry program: http://www.pdx.edu/admissions/ugrad_qkentry_apply.html. We offer master’s degree programs in urban & regional planning and civil & environmental engineering,…
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Rob Zako for OTC!
Occasional Portland Transport contributor and state-wide transportation advocate (Rob is the organizer of the Otran e-mail list) Rob Zako has applied for one of the two open positions on the Oregon Transportation Commission. I will be writing to Governor Kulongoski to recommend Rob, and I would urge other Portland Transport readers to do the same.…
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Double Decking
A guest post from regular commenter Garlynn Woodsong: Recently, we have discussed the testing in San Francisco of a double-decker bus, which will then move on to Las Vegas, NV to go into full service as a part of the fleet serving their Deuce line. Tri-Met is currently running its fleet on B5 biodiesel, and…
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Sellwood Transportation Projects
The Sellwood neighborhood has been in the news several times recently with regards to transportation issues. The bridge committee recently recommended four bridge designs and four alignments for further study. Theresa Pucik, the vice chairwoman of the Sellwood-Moreland Improvement League, was quoted in the Clackamas Review recently decrying the planned location of the Bybee Blvd…