transportation

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The Town of La Conner in Northern Washington
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Bruce Agnew
December 26, 2001
Cascadia
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What Does 2002 Hold for San Juan County?

Bruce Agnew
December 26, 2001
Cascadia
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This section came from a larger summary of opinion from San Juan (Wash.) leaders in housing, growth, technology, education and volunteerism, in addition to transportation. For the complete article, click here. Transportation Since 1997, community leaders have gathered regularly at the Farmhouse Inn in La Conner to explore better ways to connect communities in North Snohomish, Skagit, Island, Whatcom and Read More ›

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Aerial view of Highway 5 Interchange, located south of Seattle Downtown near the Stadion, with lots of Car and Truck traffic driving in all directions
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Bruce Chapman, Glenn Pascall and Bruce Agnew
July 25, 1999
Cascadia
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The Cascadia Connection

Bruce Chapman, Glenn Pascall and Bruce Agnew
July 25, 1999
Cascadia
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The good news, in the consensus of dozens of citizen leaders and officials from Vancouver, B.C., to Eugene, Ore., who are working on a Discovery Institute project called "Connecting the Gateways and Trade Corridors," is that we really can solve our transportation problems. The key is thinking beyond political boundaries and beyond traditional transportation funding sources. Moreover, in improving mobility, we should not accept a decline in our quality of life. On the contrary, we can go beyond what many have considered possible, and add health to the economy instead of weighing it down with an impossible new taxload. Read More ›
June 1, 1997
Uncategorized
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Geography, economy bring Northwest cities ever-closer

June 1, 1997
Uncategorized
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American’s call it the Pacific Northwest. Canadians see it as their southwest. But to many residents, the coastal corridor from Oregon to British Columbia is not just two countries side by side on a map. The region has become a quasi-country all its own, with cities like Seattle sharing more in common with Vancouver, B.C., than Washington, D.C. Some even Read More ›

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Long articulated streetcar bends as it goes around a curve
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Bruce Chapman
January 24, 1997
Citizen Leadership
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Proposed streetcar route a loopy idea

Bruce Chapman
January 24, 1997
Citizen Leadership
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He retired from the Seattle City Council three years ago and sold the family’s pharmacy on Capitol Hill soon afterwards, but he has not retired from his work with streetcars. At least one early morning a week, you will find George Benson, 78, down on the waterfront picking up trash along the tracks or over at the car barn shining Read More ›

Ray B. Chambers
November 1, 1995
Cascadia
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Can Privatization Put Passenger Rail Back on Track?

Ray B. Chambers
November 1, 1995
Cascadia
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America needs passenger rail service as an economical and ecological alternative to endless road and airport construction. Unfortunately, Amtrak cannot (and probably should not) survive as it is presently structured and funded. Perpetuating the status quo will burden America with a lame, government-run passenger operation, limping along on the nation's freight rail rights-of-way, operating under outdated federal rules from its 1970 authorization, and surviving on Congressional handouts. But, the solution is not to throw Amtrak on the market, accepting whatever happens. What would happen is, Amtrak would die. The proper course is to reorganize the system, privatizing whatever can be privatized, building new public-private alliances and compacts around the set of rail corridors that link cities 100-500 miles apart-which is the functional core of the national system-and then reconnecting this reorganized nation system to other forms of transportation to create a true intermodal passenger network. Read More ›