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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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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…