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Congestion = Prosperity?
Rex passes along the following link from yesterday’s NY Times Magazine: The Way We Live Now: Speed Bump While talking about tolling as the increasing preferred approach to deal with congestion, it suggests this newly emerging perspective: The overarching new credo is that gridlock shouldn’t be conceived of as a problem or a mark of…
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My Commute: A New Year’s Resolution
Hi, I’m Willow, and I write a blog for Urban Honking called perfect heart. Jessica asked if I would do an entry here about one of my New Years resolutions. This is actually a resolution I set for 2005, and didn’t even come close to accomplishing, so I put it at the top of my…
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Updated: A Pain the Bridge
Update: This weekend’s closure has been postponded due to the weather, and tentatively rescheduled to next weekend For those of us who just finally got that sense of relief that two years of maintenance on the Broadway Bridge are over (or who suffered through the projects on the Hawthorne or Ross Island bridges before), here…
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Bike Show Now on iTunes
Our KBOO Bike Show podcast is now available on iTunes. To find it, type “KBOO Bike” into the search box in iTunes. Eventually we should show up in the podcast directory listing under Transportation, sub-category Bicycles. However, updating of these categories is notoriously slow, so we don’t know when we’ll show up.
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Burnside Watershed?
Last night I attended a forum that Commissioner Adams held for small business owners on Burnside and Couch to discuss the (west side) couplet proposal. Given the recent planning bureau critique of the plan, I was concerned that this would be another opportunity to dump on the couplet plan (which I support). I was pleasantly…