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Falconiering

With each action, the Falcon style becomes clearer: He travels and sees something exciting (highways…
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Price Tags 97 – Silver Spring

Click here for Price Tags 97.   The third ‘Metrohood’ in our series, “Washington on…
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Give Me Liberty

Robert Liberty, the Portland Metro Commissioner who once led 1,000 Friends of Oregon, will be…
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TransLink: Beyond Google

Info VP at TransLink, Bob Padden, has some follow-up to the Google presentation: … the…
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News that Fits: Flyovers in India, Bikes in Portland

Two good pieces in yesterday’s New York Times.  Tom Friedman writes from India, where last…
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Plan C for sensible transportation

The Livable Region Coalition isn’t the only west-coast group fighting for more sensible options to…
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Taking Transit to the Giant Crab of Doom

It was one of those days.  TransLink launched their new trip-finder service with Google –…
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Viva La Velorution

It’s a cliche, I know, but sometimes you can tell a Tipping Point has been…
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Cool Stuff: Flickrvision

What the world is photographing, minute by minute. Warning: could be mesmerizing. …
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Knute Berger: Anti-Fan

Crosscut – Seattle’s Tyee – has a columnist, Knute Berger, who every so often tosses…
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Washington to L.A.: Charge!

Oh boy, things are changing when the Bush administration tells Los Angeles they should seriously…
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Queue the buses – now!

Independent film maker Damien Gillis has just released a mini-doc that exposes one of the…
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Feedback on the Feedback

I spent all day yesterday at a Stakeholder Transportation Forum – part of the public consultation process…
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Ray Spaxman, Paradise Maker

This Friday,  I’ll be interviewing Ray Spaxman – Vancouver’s City Planner from 1973 to 1989…

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