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KBOO Bike Show: Back to School
Listen to the show (mp3, 27.4MB) In the first segment, Tori talks with the JP Reuer from the Pacific Northwest College of Art about the unique design/build process that created the New Columbia Bike Hub in a matter of days. In the second segment we hear from LeeAnne Fergason, Education Director for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance,…
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Closing the Loop, in Fast-Forward
Here’s a fun time-lapse video showing 19 days of work to connect Streetcar to the new LRT tracks/bridge in South Waterfront in just under a minute. The work was completed 14 hours ahead of schedule despite 4 inches of rain at the end of the job.
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Initial Thoughts on the ITDP Study
The transportation corner of the internet has been abuzz for the last week over the new study from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. The report compares the amount of development catalyzed by a variety of transit projects, including Light Rail, Bus Rapid Transit and Streetcar – and looks at the ratio between capital investment…
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What’s the VMT of Your Garbage?
Via The Overhead Wire: The Atlantic Cities has a piece about trying to minimize the energy/emission footprint of transporting garbage, and looks at New York City’s efforts to shift from hauling garbage to landfills in trucks to moving it on barges. Our region has a similar challenge. Our landfill in is in Gilliam County, east…
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Open Thread for week of 9/29/2013
A few hot items: Joseph Rose looks at final ridership numbers for FY13. (They are down. TriMet blames the end of Free Rail Zone and nice weather this past summer; the biggest ridership drop was LRT, with some summer declines in bus ridership). Metro Councilor Bob Stacey wades into the debate whether as to how…