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Bijou Metro will have two theaters that seat 35 each, plus two screening rooms that seat about half as many. They hope to open next weekend, after a sneak preview for their key supporters. You could be among them.

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Removing those vehicles waiting to turn left eliminates most of the “luck” we currently rely on when we navigate Willamette Street. Bad luck is experienced as stress, and that stress is not divided equally among the drivers affected.

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If we declare as a community that we will no longer support or subsidize surface parking lots in our city center, we’ll get there that much quicker. We’re already close.

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When citizens see value in what’s been built with their tax dollars, everyone wins. The challenge now moves to the designers. Teach a dime to sing like a dollar.

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What is now 75 seconds might become 90 seconds, but consistently so. The delays that come from choosing the wrong lane will be eliminated, because there will be only one thoroughgoing lane.

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Trucks, trains, ships and planes — every commercial transit mode wants to better its connection with our region.

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Let’s make a bus that looks all the world like a train and see if it will attract private development capital. If “bus rapid transit” can attract even one quarter the investments we see with light rail, we’ve more than doubled our leverage of public monies.

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City Hall is like the high school principal’s office. We consider it was a good day if we didn’t have to go there.

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We look at it now and we’re chagrined at its squat, centripetal design. It moves energy toward its center, and shields that energy from the street.

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If your most direct path to the grocery store was only available on foot or by bike, you might not drive for a quick trip for a couple of ingredients.

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