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Sometimes the NIMBY's are right...
English: The urban growth boundary edge at Bull Mountain in the Portland metropolitan area. Farmland in foreground, urban development in background. From Roy Rogers Road near Bull Mountain Road. (Photo...
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Streetcar Basics
The interior of a Portland Streetcar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)English: A car of the Portland Streetcar system at the eastbound Portland State University stop, on Market Street at the South Park...
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Transit Customer Service from F to A grades
English: by me UTA bus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)English: Bus 2909 of TriMet, the public transit agency in Portland, Oregon, is a 2009-built New Flyer D40LFR. It is pictured on Harrison Street at 4th...
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Economic Development: Benefit or Black Hole?
The headquarters of Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California. Note the small "No Photos" sign in the picture. Photographed by user Coolcaesar on July 16, 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)On August...
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New Hillsboro Stadium
English: Hillsboro Stadium in Hillsboro, Oregon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)In my last posting I talked about sports stadiums when specifically talking about economic development and how they don't...
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How Economic Development affects Effective Planning
Mayor Dennis Doyle (Photo credit: Wikipedia)In my last couple of posts, I talked about the efforts of many cities to create economic development by inciting corporations with subsidies to locate....
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You Can't Get There from Here...
English: Zip car carsharing service at downtown Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)New Flyer C40LFR laying over ath the Federal Way Transit Center. It left a few minutes later on route 402....
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Opening of the new Portland Streetcar Line
Had the opportunity to attend the grand opening of the new Portland CL line this past Saturday. This is the third new rail opening I have attended, the first being the opening of the original TRAX line...
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Eliminating Parking Requirements - Easier Said Than Done
English: Bronaugh Apartments at 1434 Southwest Morrison Street in Portland, Oregon. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Many transit advocates look to parking requirements and say that eliminating the need for...
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Are State Governments Out of Date?
San Francisco Bay Area highlighted in red on a map of California (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Take a look at almost any state in the nation, and you will find something interesting. Except for the original...
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"I Know Engineers...They Love to Change Things"
English: A diagram of a diverging diamond interchange, showing how the traffic flows. Apparently, the Dept. of Transportation in the state of Missouri had too much money this year and hired some kids...
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Time to worry about important things?
Study of Peak Oil and Gas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)English: Las Vegas Strip (Photo credit: Wikipedia)OK, the worry about the Mayan calender is over, we have survived our trip to the fiscal cliff, and...
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Observations from a Chicago Trip
In April, I had the opportunity to attend the American Planning Association conference which was being held in Chicago which also meant that I would have the opportunity to explore its transit system...
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Now there is two...
LACMTA Metro Local #8407 (Photo credit: L.A. Urban Soul)Today it was announced that North American Bus Industries better known as NABI has been purchased by New Flyer Industries of Winnipeg Canada for...
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Looking for a position...
Portland State University College of Urban & Public Affairs (Photo credit: Wikipedia)I have to apologize for not posting more frequently lately but I have been very busy between school and raising...
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How well does your trail work?
I am a walker, I love to do a lot of walking. While it may not show right now with the pounds I need to do I have walked more than 15 miles in a single day.When I visited Portland before moving up here...
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3 Day Transit Only Trip to Los Angeles
A job interview in Los Angeles on December 20th meant I had to travel down there and get around the city. My choice was to use transit and avoid the use of a car for the entire trip. I could have taken...
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Trimet Parkrose/Sumner Transit Station - The good, bad and ugly
During my recent trip to the Portland International Airport for a trip to Los Angles, I took pictures of the three Red Line stations that only serve the Red Line to the airport. Unfortunately I was...
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The Barbur Transit Center - The Good, Bad, the Ugly, and the Really Ugly and...
In my first entry on how transit centers fit into the urban form and how they can they can fit better into a strong vibrant urban form I showed a worse case example with the freeway based...
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Looking for an Internship
English: A car of the Portland Streetcar system at the eastbound Portland State University stop, on Market Street at the South Park Blocks. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Some of you may remember when I...
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