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Wall Street Journal Smarter than FTA?
An article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal nicely contrasts the transportation benefits versus development benefits of Streetcar. The Federal Transit Administration is having trouble understanding the two sets of benefits, as illustrated by the fact that all the projects funded so far under the new ‘Small Starts’ category have been BRT projects. That should change…
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Fear of Toll Blowback?
We remarked on Ron Sims’ comments on tolling Seattle’s Freeways. Turns out there’s a little more to the story. Apparently Sims commissioned a study (PDF, 1.1M) from Booz Allen Hamilton, that nicely makes the case. But then he apparently tried to sit on it until after the November election, out of concern that it might…
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Aspirations
At last Thursday’s JPACT meeting, ODOT and TriMet presented their thinking about projects for the RTP update (PDF, 559K). ODOT expects about $710M to be available for highway modernization projects (in the period from 2011 through 2035) and sorted out their priorities for those funds. They also presented ‘Ilustrative’ and ‘Refinement’ project lists for what…