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Eastside Transit Alternatives Open House
Mark your calendars. This Wednesday (May 3) there is an open house at Metro (room 370) from 4 to 7pm to review options for circulator transit service from dowtown to the east side. Options include Streetcar and a bus circulator (or doing nothing at all). There will also be a public hearing on May 10th…
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Scenarios, Sensitivity and Resilience in Regional Planning
I started thinking about this post following the Regional Transportation Plan scoping workshop that occurred last week, which others have written about. But it really jelled for me yesterday after another workshop with Metro’s panel of economic advisers (engaged to help validate the models for the 20 year forecasts). During the breakout session for the…
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Who’d pay billions to buy 30 seconds?
Our own Scott Bricker has an opinion piece in today’s Oregonian questioning the value of the incremental investment of $6B suggested by the Cost of Congestion study.
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AORTA Continues to Engage FTA
AORTA isn’t standing down in its critique of the Transit Mall design. Here are their rebuttal to TriMet’s points (PDF, 48K) and a follow-up letter to the FTA (PDF, 52K).
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CRC Task Force Has Trouble Crossing Decision Point
It was a busy meeting for the Columbia River Task Force last night. Their task was to vote on the crossing and transit components to move forward to the next round of analysis. They didn’t get very far. Concerns were raised about the level of outreach in the public comment process (indeed, Portland Transport’s comments,…