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Free Trade in Bikes?
Here’s an interesting link I picked up from the Word Car Free Network list. Apparently there is an effort to get bicycles and bicycle parts classified as “environmentally preferable products” for purposes of the World Trade Organization, so they can be imported and exported with out tariffs. I’m not sure what that would mean for…
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Oregonian “Gets It” on Freight
On today’s editorial page, the Oregonian has figured out what the freight community keeps ignoring: shifting SOV drivers to alternate modes is good for freight! As gas prices hit $3 per gallon, it’s not just individual motorists rethinking their way of getting around the region. Businesses are, too. And as an understanding of the region’s…
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Congestion and the Last Mile
Hat tip to reader Randy Evans who passed on this link for a European pilot program on managing congestion due to city-center deliveries. What might a similar program look like here in our region?
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Designing Oregon’s Road User Fee Pilot Test
Check out the latest thinking on this idea at Friday’s PSU Transportation Seminar. Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2006 Transportation Seminar Series Topic: Designing Oregon’s Road User Fee Pilot Test Speakers: Jill Pearson, Road User Fee Pilot Project Manager, Oregon Department of Transportation; and David Kim, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,…
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Oregon’s Next Governor?
Our project to get the candidates for Governor to respond to our questionnaire has gone nowhere. Apparently the campaigns get deluged with these things. Only the Westlund campaign was forthright enough to tell us straight up that they weren’t going to respond. But here’s an opportunity for a little insight. At the Westside Economic Alliance…