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Maintaining Portland’s Streets: Wrapping Up (for now)
We’ll round out our series this week with two references to info on CommissionerSam.com. First, there are survey results up from the folks who attended Sam’s neighborhood coalition meetings. A couple of headlines: Attendees would rather fund a solution to the whole backlog than a partial solution. Top three preferred funding methods in order: Gas…
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Maintaining Portland’s Streets: Funding Options
So having reviewed the challenge of the maintenance backlog for Portland’s street system and looked at some of the common questions around local transportation funding, now it’s time to look at the revenue options for dealing with it. Here are few that are probably out of the question: City registration fee (not legal in Oregon)…
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Rapid Streetcar
A quick shout out to a post over at “The Overhead Wire” blog that talks about the topic of rapid streetcar. It posits that Streetcars with greater stop spacing could serve as more cost effective alternatives to Light Rail, and references the proposed Lake Oswego line as an example. [Bob, if you dig through the…
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Tram on a Hot Summer Day
Over at CommissionerSam.com, a new post is up about the high level of ridership on the Portland Aerial Tram. Last December, in another conversation over there, a number of critics made dire predictions about the future of the Tram, not only in terms of ridership but also about hot weather. With those criticisms in mind,…
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Alternatives to Congestion Pricing Don’t Meet Muster
The Regional Plan Association, a New York area advocacy group has done a critique of alternatives (PDF, 120K) offered up to the congestion pricing proposal for Manhattan. Their conclusion is that the two major alternatives would not provide the same benefits: License plate restriction schemes (i.e., you can’t drive in the city on the 2nd,…