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The “Portland Bicycle”
One of the pieces of news this week from the Federal Transportation Bill was funding to prototype local manufacture of streetcars, so that we might have a true “Portland Streetcar”. Well, Portland Transport doesn’t have $4M for a project, but we do have a very creative audience. On several threads it has been remarked that…
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We’re Not Alone!
Speaking of bikes… When we launched this site, we were under the impression that we were starting the first transportation-related blog in the region. But we find that someone got there first, at least for one mode. Jonathan Maus has been running Bike Portland for a while now, moving it from Oregon Live to its…
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Our Own Little Think Tank
Rob Bertini at PSU passes on this press release about funding for the Center for Transportation Studies at PSU (in cooperation with U of O, OSU and OIT – how’s that for alphabet soup). What research questions would Portland Transport readers want CTS to study? This is only the beginning of news coming out the…
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My Commute: Ride Connection
When we think about commuting, we tend to think about trips from home to work. Or maybe home to school. But last week, I got exposed to another kind of commuting when I had the opportunity to do a ride-along with Ride Connection. Ride Connection is a unique organization that coordinates a network of over…
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An Introduction to Flexcar
What is Flexcar? Flexcar is a carsharing service. We own and manage a large, fully-automated, self-service fleet of fuel efficient cars, trucks and vans. Businesses and individuals pay a modest annual membership fee, and then use an online reservation system and a “keycard” (proximity card) to enter and drive the vehicle that they reserved. Unlike…