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Many miles to go

From Sprawl & Transportation News - Sightline Daily. Published on Sep 01, 2010.

Portland officials hope one in four residents will regularly get on a bicycle by 2030. But a new report by a leading bicycle advocacy group shows how city leaders are falling short: On Portland's bike paths, women, poor people, and minorities are getting left behind.

"Free" parking costs Eugene $220,000

From Sprawl & Transportation News - Sightline Daily. Published on Sep 02, 2010.

A free parking test program in downtown Eugene flopped last year, but the city council ignored the results, voting in effect to spend $220,000 a year to subsidize free parking downtown. The expenditure for a dozen blocks of free on-street parking comes at a time the city is cutting services and raising fees to cover increasing budget deficits.

A dishonor to be nominated

From Sprawl & Transportation News - Sightline Daily. Published on Sep 01, 2010.

Dilapidated and low-density housing projects in Seattle may accidentally be preserved as historic landmarks, if arguments prevail that Yesler Terrace should be preserved as one of the country's first low-income garden communities. (Never mind the crumbling plumbing and roving vermin that run through those lawns now.)

Rage against the machines

From Sprawl & Transportation News - Sightline Daily. Published on Sep 02, 2010.

Picture the oil monsters: Giant earth gobbling machines slowly barging up the Columbia River, making their ponderous way past endangered salmon, through the craggy gorge to the Snake River and then bellying up to a dock at Lewiston where they hit the highways to the Alberta tar sands. Oregon will be the gateway to this fossil fuel hell.

Views: Car capacity is not sacred

From Sprawl & Transportation News - Sightline Daily. Published on Sep 01, 2010.

As the Puget Sound region continues to grow, we will be faced with a choice: Continue to build more roads and thereby preclude progress on alternative transportation, or accept that there is a limit to the number of cars we can accommodate. That is not to say the transition will be totally painless. But wishing for a pony isn’t going to solve the massive future challenges we face.