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Can Wal-Mart Pave its Way to Acceptance?
Friday’s Oregonian reports that Beaverton has outlined a list of road improvements Wal-Mart would need to fund to meet standards for its proposed Cedar Hills location. The list includes some 16 off-site improvements. Wal-Mart seems happy with the list even though no one has added up the price tag yet. Some of the items include:…
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What Should that Ticket Cost?
Friday’s Transportation Seminar at PSU will focus on “Optimal Mass Transit Subsidies.” (12-1:30pm, 4/14, 204 Urban Center) Here’s the abstract: This paper, co-authored with Ian W.H. Parry, derives formulas for the welfare effects of reforming subsidies for peak and off-peak urban rail and bus fares, and applies them to the metropolitan areas of Washington, D.C.,…
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Transportation and … health care?
CJ Grimes works as a community health care organizer with Service Employees International Union, Local 49 on the Make Health Care Work Campaign (MHCW). MHCW is a coalition of health care advocates, front line caregivers and consumers working to give the community a guaranteed voice in regional health care planning. You can contact CJ directly…
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Electronic Parking Markets
Todd passes on this info from Springwise. SpotScout claims to be the world’s first mobile exchange marketplace for parking spots, connecting parking spaces with drivers that are desperately seeking them. Urban planners estimate that as much as 80 percent of traffic on some city streets comes from motorists aimlessly circling blocks in search of a…
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Citizens, Pay Attention!
A few weeks ago I tried to answer the question of when was the decision to put Light Rail on the Transit Mall was really made. I opined that these were continuous processes rather than discrete events (the adoption of a Locally Preferred Alternative is the discrete decision, but the consensus building along the way…