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I Hate being Scooped
And Jonathan Maus over at bikeportland.org did it twice yesterday. First with a piece about a new Bike/Ped Institute at PSU, and then again with a notice about a Portland Bike Summit this summer as part of the Platinum effort. Sigh. Go comment over there…
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Become a “Transportation Ambassador”
The Portland Office of Transportation’s Options Division is looking for a few good men …. er … people. Learn how to help inform your fellow citizens about the panoply of transporatation choices in our fair city. And there’s a T-shirt involved! [Credit to the ORBike blog for pointing me to this.]
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Bug TriMet About Something Else
Enough already with the Transit Mall Stuff. TriMet is holding several open houses on its Transit Improvement Plan (TIP), essentially its capital investment plan. The open houses are: Wednesday, March 15th, 11-2 and 4-7 in the Portland Bldg (2nd floor) Tuesday, March 21st, 4-7pm at the Portland Adventist Academy (1500 SE 96th Avenue, Portland) Wednesday,…
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This is Depressing
Rex passes this along from the SHIFT list: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0222-27.htm The scientific uncertainty in global warming isn’t about whether it’s occurring or whether it’s caused by human activity, or even if it will “cost” us too much to deal with it now. That’s all been settled. Scientists are now debating whether it’s too late to prevent…
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Candidate Questionnaire II
Last month I proposed sending a Portland Transport questionnaire to all the candidates for Governor (well, at least the 3 top contenders in each party plus Mr. Westlund). I’ve been thinking more about this and have added a few questions. How about some more? Will the budget you submit to the legislature include funding for…