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When’s My Bus Coming?
In the Sunday O, Jim Mayer has an article about the TriMet bus lines that are most consistently late (TriMet defines this as more than 5 minutes behind schedule). The champion is the #95 I-5 Tigard Express. In fact, all of the worst performing lines are long-haul lines, often expresses, that are most likely to…
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Thinking Big Thoughts
The Future of our Transportation – Big Ideas and Outcomes We’ve been hearing from Metro that the Regional Transportation Plan Update just getting underway is going to be different. (See Council President Bragdon’s remarks (PDF, 31K) and Councilor Burkholder’s comments (PDF, 31K) from the April 20th stakeholder forum.) They say the new RTP is going…
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Bike Summit Agenda Released
PDOT has just released the agenda for the Bike Summit coming up on Saturday, June 17th. This is a great time to remind everyone to register (it’s FREE)! Here are the details: PSU Smith Center, June 17, 2006 Plenary I 8:30 am to 9:45 am A Celebration of our 15 Years of Bicycling Success Telling…
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Cost Effective Incentives for Transit
I attended PSU’s transportation seminar a few Fridays ago and heard an interesting student presentation on employer provided incentives for transit use (go to the seminar page to download or stream the presentation). Some of the information was intuitive, e.g., if you give employees a transit pass, they’ll use transit more often. The big insight…
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When the Money Runs Out
There was a transportation panel at last week’s Illahee symposium, “Oil Water and Oregon”. Of course the gas tax came up. As the gas tax loses buying power to inflation and greater fuel economy, the funds available for maintenance continue to get squeezed. One panelist opined that the message voters were sending in voting down…