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Tolling in the New Year
Today’s Tribune editorializes favorably on tolling as a funding strategy as an alternative to growing congestion…
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Transit Surfer Catches Cell Phone Wave
We have our first release of a WAP/WML (cell phone) interface for the Surfer. Go to: http://tsrf.us/wap [If you follow the link in a regular web browser, you’re not likely to get anything meaningful.] Note that it’s not 100% complete. We don’t have menus to select lines or stops, you MUST enter a stop number.…
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Hey, it Could Have Been Worse
I got a kick out of the article in yesterday’s O about a spat between the parking folks at PDOT and the vendor who manages all those paystations downtown. Apparently some (percentage TBD) of the machines accepted money on Monday, which was a holiday with no parking enforcement. While I quite agree that the City…
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GPS Tolling Gets a Trial in Seattle
What if I said that I had a magic bullet that would guarantee citizens significantly less auto traffic congestion and provide beleaguered transportation departments with much-needed funds. How could you say no? And yet, tolls and congestion pricing have long been considered political suicide in the U.S. However, in the face of shrinking transportation budgets…