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Peek into the Future
ITS Oregon, the local chapter of the Intelligent Transportation Society has a demonstration of Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) coming up. Here’s the early info. Unfortunately, I have two conflicting meetings that day. It would be great if a member of the Portland Transport community could be there and send back a report. What: High-tech Future…
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Public Bicycle Systems
Dave Brook has a nice roundup of public bicycle systems on his carsharing blog. Along the same lines, Ron Richings has observations from his travels over on the SHIFT list. He notes that bike sharing systems have a big impact on bicycle mode share. I understand Commissioner Adams’ office has an RFP out for a…
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TriMet Adopts Budget
TriMet has adopted a $741M budget for FY2008. In addition to a 5 cent fare increase and continuing construction of the Green Line and Washington County Commuter Rail, here are a few more highlights: $1.7 million to begin replacing the original 20-year old Ticket Vending Machines located along Eastside MAX line with debit/credit-card only machines.…