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Your Questions for Neil: The Cycle
It’s a bit late this year, but it is now time for the fourth installment of Portland Transport’s annual interview with TriMet general manager Neil McFarlane. (The previous installments–including introductory threads, and links to videos and transcripts, can be found at this Google search; I’m too lazy to link to all of it now…) Anyway,…
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Best Thing We Could Do for Transportation: Abolish USDOT?
I’m a fan of Chuck Marohn and his “Strong Towns” organization. We start from different places but get to generally the same priorities for transportation spending. His focus is fiscal sustainability and in a recent podcast, he makes the case that Federal transportation policy, as implemented by the US Department of Transportation, has the effect…
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City of Portland announces new “Portland Hayride” project
This morning, Portland mayor Charlie Hales announced that the City, in cooperation with the Buckman, Hosford-Abernathy, Richmond, Sunnyside, and Mt. Tabor neighborhood associations, is forming a new quasi-public entity known as Portland Hayride, Inc. (PHI), chartered to provide horse-drawn public transit along SE Hawthorne. The proposed line, which will run between the east end of…
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April 2013 Open Thread
It’s tax month again… Be sure to read our feature on the new Portland Hayride project. Fares on LIFT are going up. This is a previously-announced fare increase, one that was not scheduled to take effect until this month. ODOT is looking for ways to make Mt. Hood more multimodal (H/T to Bike Portland). C-TRAN…