Posts tagged Portland
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Breakfast links: Redevelopment
No more Laurel Mall; Path cleared for Klingle Trail; Corruption fighters fight elections board; Portland builds without parking; Bus rides into house; Program tells cities apart; And…. Keep reading…
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Portland gets a “bike barometer”
Portland is the latest US city to get a “bike counter,” which keeps track of cycle traffic at busy spots. Arlington has actually had bike counters for some time, though the Portland one adds something else: a visible display of how many people have ridden past. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Power to the people
Vote on transportation financing; Really secret shoppers; Want to read a bad editorial?; The strain of sprawl; Private rail in Florida?; Better systems need more time; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Power
Few would pay to bury wires; More power; Library gets sunny; WMATA counts bikes; Planes get on collision course; Where light rail is king; Finally getting built; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rejected
Atlanta rejects tax for transportation; VA approves I-95 HOT lanes; One penalty rises, another too high?; Walmart may hurt Giant most; BRT builds ridership; Portland broadens road metric; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taxis and corruption
Council passes taxi bill, spares Uber; Harris pleads guilty; Bring more power lines underground?; Amtrak eyes larger Union Station; Designing smaller apartments; Map DC’s abandoned bicycles; Takoma Park mulls municipal power company; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Buckle up
Heat may be damaging roads; Riders get no info to evacuate train; Wells is running; We’re #14!; Office development seeks shift to housing; Planners underestimate induced demand; Who needs an SUV?; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Can of worms
Thomas had help; … but Graham is on it; A party as old as tea; The sordid world of fare jumping; DC does foliage; The invisible helmet; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Unfortunately expected
Hurt cyclist ticketed for nonexistent violation; Costco “beautiful,” says Kwame; Let’s loosen the numbers; Evans has Logan Circle parking plan; Want a grocery? Add housing; Hidden urbanism; Sprawl is really quite big; Promise and peril in public housing; Elect the regionals?; And…. Keep reading…
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Amsterdam proves bikes and streetcars are allies
Cyclists and streetcar tracks don’t always get along, but the two should not be enemies. On the contrary, cities with large streetcar networks also tend to be the most bicycle friendly. This is because streetcars contribute strongly to the development of more dense, urban, less car-dependent cities — the same characteristics that produce the most friendly urban… Keep reading…