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At the Movies: Who Killed the Electric Car?
Update 18 July 2006: This morning’s Tribune has an interview with the filmmaker and word that the film’s regular run starts on Friday at the Fox theater.
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Data Sheds Light on Burnside Options
Yesterday afternoon Sam Adams and the consultant team presented the results of the traffic modeling of various alternatives for West Burnside St. from the river to NW 24th to “key stakeholders” (which included some property owners who had never been near the Stakeholder Committee process!). While there are no conclusions, there is some narrowing of…
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Additional Perspective on the Columbia Crossing Project
A reader passes along this link to an article in construction industry trade magazine about the Columbia Crossing. Two key points in the article: – Inclusion of transit in the bi-state agreement – Streamlined bi-state process to advance the project more quickly
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Happy Birthday to the Little Train that Could
It’s been five years since a parade led the first convoy of Streetcars from PSU out onto the rails with passenger service. On Friday, Commissioner Sam Adams will lead a party that will celebrate: – 5 years of successful Streetcar operation – Streetcar’s 10,000,000th passenger – Regional adoption of the Locally Preferred Alternative for bringing…
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It’s About Time
Gordon Price, the urban guru/former Vancouver, B.C. City Councilor, has finally started a blog. It’s already programmed into my RSS reader. For those of you who may not have been familiar Price Tags, Gordon’s e-mail/PDF newsletter, his insights are not to be missed.