Parking is $5, and there's no published information on a Cherriots shuttle or bike corral. It may be, in fact, that there is only the dinky bike rack indicated by the map off of 17th Street.
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| Bike rack location on 17th Street |
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| Full map |
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| It's hard to cross Lancaster |
Speeds on Lancaster are also too high.
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| Crosswalk and Median detail refinements at the Fussy Duck and Rock-n-Rogers Commercial Vista Corridor Study (click to enlarge) |
Unfortunately, because of the fragmented jurisdiction on Lancaster, shared between the City and County, doing the same there will be more difficult. The neighborhoods adjoining middle Commercial here are also very different from the neighborhoods along Lancaster, and there may be very real equity issues in play.
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| Buy a lottery ticket, Support a path |
The audit from the Secretary of State's Office, released Thursday, brings to light an open secret long lamented by reformers who worry that the lottery's billion-dollar returns come at the expense of problem gamblers.This has been at the center of the Portland Bicycle Transportation Alliance's statewide funding advocacy at the Legislature (see testimony from this year here), but the realities of funding things from lottery and video poker dollars are more than a little icky.
So-called "limited menu" purveyors — which pair wall-to-wall video gambling with cigarettes and bare-bones food options such as microwave burritos — have been free to flout state rules meant to keep retailers from earning more than half their sales from gambling, the audit found.
The South Salem Transit Center will be in part funded by these monies. Elsewhere, Eugene in particular cleaned up with funding for some terrific projects.
But these are not funding sources about which we should feel very proud. We really need to rethink funding transportation, and gas taxes and carbon taxes should be at the center of it.
2 comments:
Lancaster Drive is a disaster! As chair of East Lancaster Neighborhood Association I worked on the Lancaster Study back in the late 1990s. Interesting that the City only published 3 copies of the findings, but they use it as the blue print for all major arterials since. Basic findings were that access needs to be collated, turns controlled and points of conflict reduced. Some of the things that you see recommended are the islands and raised curbs to control lanes and turning ( they probably have a more official name).
The problems with Lancaster are too numerous to list, but we keep letting developers build problems and then spend millions of tax dollars to fix them. I am not sure how to retrofit bad situation like Lancaster, South Commercial or Wallace Road so that people pedestrians can be safer.
We do know how to retrofit them! Some version of a multi-way boulevard. In cross-section:
Sidewalk/low-traffic local street/hard median/center lanes for higher speed trough-traffic/hard median/low-traffic local street/sidewalk
See the third picture in this post for one version of this. The "Stroad to Boulevard" tumblr has many other examples of similar boulevard treatments.
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