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Semi-Truck / Streetcar Collision
The afternoon of Tuesday, April 30, 2013, a semi-truck collided with a Portland streetcar at the intersection of SE Market St. & SE MLK Blvd. I happened to be nearby and captured the process of separating and removing the two vehicles. The truck had a flat tire and bent wheel (in addition to major body…
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Lombard Re-Imagined Open House on Tuesday, May 7th
For the last several months, I have been working with five other PSU Master of Urban and Regional Planning students (collectively known as Swift Planning Group) on an exciting project called Lombard Re-Imagined. We have been working with the Kenton Neighborhood Association and other surrounding neighborhoods to re-imagine the unpleasant, unsafe, auto-oriented stretch of Lombard…
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Your Questions for Neil, “Round 4”, Part 2 – The Suburbs
This is the 2nd in a series of four videos of our interview last week with TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane, featuring many of your suggested questions. Today’s topic is “The Suburbs”, looking at service levels, political support, future planning, and transit equity. Navigation: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4…
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Your Questions for Neil, “Round 4”, Part 1 – Labor Relationship
Last week, we interviewed TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane using your suggested questions as a basis for the discussion. The result is a series of 4 videos of the major topic areas of that discussion. Today’s video focuses on the labor relationship between TriMet and the ATU. Navigation: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part…
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Security, or Security State?
The “CommunityCam” project recently came to my attention by way of an e-mail from one of the project members. It’s a crowdsourcing effort to identify security cameras that observe the public right-of-way. The motivation of the project is to make it easier to generate evidence in the case of a crime or incident (video of…