I’m loving it more by the day! Really looking forward to putting it to use as I suspect thousands of others are.
It’s gonna go right smack THERE! See below, you can kind of see the inlets and bridge pilings going in.
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Portland
Seattle
Other interesting facts are the distance people travelled (shorter is generally better for a more sustainable environment and activities), the energy consumed or expended per passenger, etc. Some of these are hard to find, some are a little easier. King County and TriMet do a decent job providing this data, mostly. TriMet has a vastly easier website to find data on vs. King County’s, which seems to have been forced to use the “how not to build a website book”. I’m sure some bureaucrat had some say in the misguided approach, but the data is there, ya just gotta dig for it. 🙂
One of the things that happens over and over again. Check this out below…
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Did you see it? Yeah, no “automobile” directions! Seriously, drivers can figure it out themselves, the country spends enough money on em’ and GPS makes that brainlessly simple. However Portland loves to point out the awesome transit capabilities – the nearby Amtrak Union Station, Light Rail MAX to the Airport, etc. Either way you come, the conference looks to be pretty sweet. Check it out here: http://www.zeromq.org/event:pdxconf2012
So on February 7th I’m speaking at the PADNUG – Portland Area .NET/Developers User Group. The location of the meeting is in the Intel Campus here:
5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124
I’ll be starting my trip out to this location from downtown Portland right around this lat and long:
45.519370, -122.675155
That gets me this flawless ride out on Portland’s TriMet Blue Line MAX. So if you’re in the area, we can surely ride together, it may be a bit packed being rush hour and all. At least however it is light rail, so it isn’t exactly “delayed” because of traffic. 🙂 Gotta love those dedicated ROWs (Right of Ways).
There are numerous transit systems that are building out, even in spite of this recession/depression era we exist in. Overall, things are looking bad for transport, transport freedom, and many of these things. But also the winds of change, the attitudes of people, and the human characteristics that we have are starting to come forth and change this outlook!
These rides I’m looking forward to are on some of the systems that will slowly begin to change things for the better. That will help us move forward toward complete streets and better livability! If you know of others I’ve missed, please let me know! 🙂
NOTE: These aren’t particularly in any order of priority, just on the list. The biggest element of these is that they are being built, are already funded, and clearly have a completion in sight or are already done!
