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Designing Communities with the Pedestrian in Mind
Rob Zako passes this along. Perhaps we can organize a carpool from Portland to Salem. Please join us on Tuesday, November 15, for a presentation on transportation-efficient development by Tom Hylton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Save Our Land, Save Our Towns. Hylton will discuss land use and urban design techniques for reducing…
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First Full Day in the Czech Republic
www.flickr.com portlandtransport’s First Full Day in Czech Republic photoset Today was our first full day in the Czech Republic and perhaps this is a good time to review the purpose of our trip. We (a delegation from Portland Streetcar, Inc – of which I am a board member) are here to inspect three new cars…
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Now that’s a Sidewalk
I couldn’t resist posting this. It’s a sidewalk just outside our hotel in Prague. The care to make a border around a water meter lid shows a regard for the public realm that we just don’t find in the United States. I can only dream that we could have sidewalks with this much love in…
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Audio: City Repair, Transit Analysis on Smart City
This week’s episode (MP3, 14MB) of Smart City includes a discussion with Bob New of the City Repair project about their work at intersections in Portland (and other projects). It starts about 28:20 minutes:seconds into the show. There’s also a rebuttal of Randall O’Toole’s transit nay saying at about 24:38 minutes:seconds into the show. It’s…
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Indulging My Obsession with Crosswalks
www.flickr.com portlandtransport’s Prague Crosswalks photoset Regular readers will know that I have a bit of a thing about our crosswalks (or lack thereof) in Portland and like to bring back examples from other cities that take them seriously. So here are two examples from Prague. The first is a run-of-the-mill crosswalk found at most corners…