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The Perils of Outsourcing
While serving on the PDOT budget advisory committee, I heard strong suggestions that PDOT could be more efficient by outsourcing some of its functions to the private sector. Well, ODOT went that way at the beginning of the decade, and Jim Mayer reports on an audit of the results in yesterday’s Oregonian. The conclusion: ODOT…
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PowerShift Comes to Portland
20/20 Vision is organizing a series of conferences this year to highlight the dangers of oil dependence and explore alternatives. Portland’s event is this Saturday at PSU.
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Ask More Candidates
Over at News4Neighbors, they’re conducting an ‘online debate’ for the City Council and County Commission candidates, and are soliciting more questions. How about suggesting some transportation questions? And please, let’s be more creative than asking about the Tram :-)
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Fare Follies
Once again my obsession with reading the “web only” murmurs in Willamette Week turns up a transportation article, this time about my favorite system, Portland Streetcar. The fare collection activity is in part a response to the coverage in the Trib a few weeks back. So here’s the challenge: most of the Streetcar line is…
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KBOO Bike Show: The Artistic Side of Bike Culture
Hosts Sara and Ayleen celebrate the artistic side of local bike culture with live music by the bike band the Trash Mountain Boys and guest Joe Biel from Microcosm Publishing. Joe has been distributing his zines by bike since 1996 and helps distribute bike- themed zines, stickers and patches.