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Slipping and Sliding
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Chris Monsere, Portland State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Topic: Combining Climate, Crash and Highway Data for Improved Ranking of Speed and Winter-Weather Related Crash Locations in Oregon When: Friday, April 27, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center
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Houses vs. Cars
A front page story in Friday’s Trib suggests that high-density housing in the central city is a bad idea because it puts concentrations of population near freeways and their pollution. So what’s the alternative? Push everyone out to the suburbs and leave the city for those too poor to have a choice? That will only…
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Agreeing with Mel
It’s not often that Mel Zucker and I agree. But I agree that TriMet turning down his request for boarding/deboarding counts on the basis of security is off the wall. In the past TriMet has often provided such counts to my neighborhood when we were evaluating routing options or potential stop re-locations. Can we have…
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A Geeky Community Project?
Last Tuesday, in a article titled “Portland, out of order“, the Trib took a swipe at the Streetcar Nextbus system: Maybe the ticker signs at the streetcar stops with their wildly innaccurate arrival times. My experience is that Nextbus is pretty accurate (I regularly check it from my cell phone web browser while getting around…