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What Can Europe Teach Us About Walking?
The PSU transportation seminars are back for the fall! Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. John Pucher, Rutgers University Topic: Promoting Safe Walking and Cycling to Improve Public Health: Lessons from Europe When: Friday, September 28, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center
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Creeping Up To Dunthorpe
Update: 9/24/07 Here’s the full report (PDF, 67K) of the steering committee recommendation. Here’s the critical language around the trail piece: a. Metro, with assistance from project partners through the TAC and PMG, should develop a process to undertake the Trail Refinement Next Steps listed above. The result of this process would be to resolve…
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Density’s Impacts on Transportation
Via the Overhead Wire: Here’s a fun tool from the San Francisco League of Conservation Voters that inter-relates urban density with other factors including VMT, vehicle ownership and the air quality consequences of those choices. It gives examples of neighborhood types at each level of density and lets you plug in your owner numbers to…