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RTP Exercise – Solutions – Free Market
In the final question for our Free Market scenario, what are some of the solutions to achieve these outcomes: Organizational Leadership is increased for business and related transit oriented development. Overall subsidization of the transit systems (including roadways) decreases by at least 50% at the state levels and users provide more representative costs. Companies locate downtown…
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Updated: The End of Commuting
Updated: 11/6/06 The video stream for this presentation is up at http://www.cts.pdx.edu/seminars.htm. The Oregonian also had an interview with Pisarski, who is the author of the Commuting in America III report. He has some interesting perspectives, particularly on the fact that commuting is a lower share of our total transportation each year. He also makes…
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Breakdown in Communications?
Yesterday’s O has lengthy piece on the divide between PDOT management and the road paving crews in the Bureau of Maintenance. The argument boils down to the central office folks saying (and the Auditor agreeing) that best practices (and in some cases State law) are not being followed, while the crews say they know best…
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More Sellwood Meetings
Aaron has a nice piece on his blog, Transportation Innovations, about the current state of the Sellwood Bridge process. Which is a nice segue into the next two meetings in the process: On Monday, November 6 the project’s Community Task Force will meet from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm at Sellwood Baptist Church, 1104 SE…