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What’s Car Sharing Doing to Auto Sales?
A lot, according to this Planetizen piece (linking to the original Wall Streetcar Journal article, which is behind a paywall). One estimate is that 500,000 less cars have been sold in the last 7 years because of the availability of car sharing services. How many parking spaces does that save?
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KBOO Bike Show: Budgets
Listen to the show (mp3, 26.1MB) Steph talks with Portland Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick, PBOT Director Leah Treat and Bicycle Transportation Alliance Advocacy Directory Gerik Kransky about City and State budgets for active transportation. And Commissioner Novick gets schooled on “Vision Zero”.
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I’m a Proud CTU
Via @LitmanVPI: That would be a Cycle-Transit User, someone who combines cycling and transit to accomplish a trip. A new study out of the Mineta Transportation Institute (PDF) looks at this behavior in Philadelphia and San Francisco. A few top line conclusions: Cycling and transit act as access for each other, it’s not a one-way relationship…
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Chinese New Year/Super Bowl open thread.
Gung hei fat choi! Time for another open thread: More of the same for TriMet and ATU. Metro wants to fast-track the UGB expansions approved in 2011, which have been held up by court challenges. Several upcoming meetings for the Southwest Corridor and the Contrary to popular belief, bicycle commuting is not just for yuppies.…
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Here We Go Again
Back in 2008, I was part of the stakeholder committee for “Safe, Sound and Green” – an attempt to generate additional revenue for PBOT. It was partially successful, helping push a statewide gas tax increase forward. But that slug of revenue turned out to be less than expected due to countervailing trends. And Portland dedicated…