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Two Tracks to the RTP
Metro’s Regional Transportation Plan update process has moved into the project solicitation process. Interestingly, unlike past cycles, Metro is asking for submissions under two different ‘tracks’. The first track is the traditional regional mobility focus. The second track has a community-building focus. I found this encouraging (more of a focus on access, rather than mobility).…
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TriMet Cleans Up its Act
TriMet reports that it has installed exhaust filters on 45 of it’s oldest buses. Combined with the use of cleaner fuel, this reduces particulates and emissions by up to 90%. This brings the buses up to the standard applied to newer vehicles. TriMet will eventually roll out this technology to the oldest 1/3 of it’s…
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Couplet Lives to Fight Another Day
I was fortunate to testify relatively early in the process yesterday, as part of one of about a half dozen invited panels. That was before some 80 members of the public testified. I had to leave immediately after my testimony to get to an MPAC meeting. I just finished going through almost six hours of…