Notices tagged with transportation

This is interesting. As a truck driver, I think I agree. American trucks should be bigger, more fuel efficient, and more modern.

#trucking #transport #transportation #climate #climateChange

https://youtu.be/WpenLsHEHaY

When ICE Ramped Up Raids, LA Schools Increased Support for Students and Families

#SchoolSupport #Transportation #FamilySupport #ICEraids #SummerLearning

https://truthout.org/articles/when-ice-ramped-up-raids-la-schools-increased-support-for-students-and-families/

FirstGroup bounces back to profit as bus revenues grow

#AvantiWestCoast #UKBusiness #Transportation #BusRevenues #GreatWesternRailway

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/firstgroup-avanti-west-coast-great-western-railway-shares-aberdeen-b2767011.html

Trump administration signals it will slash funds for long-delayed California high-speed rail project

#BudgetCuts #Transportation #Politics #Infrastructure #ProjectDelay

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-california-los-angeles-republican-bakersfield-b2763940.html

That time when the British-based HOTOL project partnered with Antonov to explore an 8-engine version of the AN-225 as a carrier plane and launch platform... 💪✈️🚀 Missing the AN-225 by the way. 😢🇺🇦 #aircraft #aviation #engineering #space #stem #transportation

Rethinking "Fill 'er up!" A new fully charged EV battery in five minutes: Are China's swap stations the future of electric cars? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250506-are-chinas-swap-stations-the-future-of-electric-cars Why not think about EVs in a different way? Instead of places to get a “fill up”, places to change the batteries? #engineering #evs #technology #transportation

"LA Metro wants to hear from you! The Draft 2025–2028 Coordinated Plan serves as a framework to address mobility for seniors and people with disabilities. Don’t miss the virtual meeting on Wednesday, May 21 at 10:30am to learn more and share your thoughts! The draft plan is available online and at several locations across LA County. Submit your comments on the draft plan by email, phone, or mail before June 2, 2025. For more information, visit

https://www.metro.net/projects/coordinated-plan-development/ " #LosAngeles #Accessibility #Transportation #PublicTransit @disability

EV maker VinFast to compete against Tesla (and other automakers) on customer service.

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/09/vinfast-pounces-on-ev-sales-growth-in-europe/

#vinfast #vinfastsales #teslasales #evsales #evs #electricvehicles #electriccars #evseurope #europeevs #vinfastus #electrification #mobility #transportation #sustainability #gogreen #goelectric

Hark! I hear trumpets and violins! PBOT is fixing 82nd Ave. in Portland! The clouds parted! Rays of sunlight appeared! Then came the doves from on high! PBOT is fixing 82nd Ave. in Portland! Cherubs float by, dispersing rose petals! We have lived to see the day!

Part of their very long email:

The Portland Bureau of Transportation's safety and maintenance upgrade of 82nd Avenue enters a new era, with months of work to provide new, smooth pavement and replace failing sections of roadway starting on Tuesday, May 27 and continuing on weekdays this summer and summer of 2026.

The first section of paving will take place on NE 82nd Avenue between NE Beech and Fremont streets. Contractors will then pave additional segments of the corridor between NE Siskiyou and NE Thompson streets and between SE Mill and SE Brooklyn streets.

The existing pavement on NE/SE 82nd Avenue is severely deteriorated in these sections, with cracking and water infiltration that extends below the surface of the roadway.

"The basic maintenance upgrade of 82nd Avenue that the community has called for for so many years is on its way," said Deputy City Administrator of Public Works Priya Dhanapal. "We ask the public's patience as our contractors remove and replace large sections of failing pavement to create a durable road surface that will serve the community for decades to come. This adds to the other safety and maintenance updates that PBOT and contractors have been implementing since 2022. Please use caution when traveling near our work zones, and do what you can to support area businesses."

“82nd Avenue Business Association members appreciate the road improvements planned for our main street. This vibrant and diverse business community looks forward to more people visiting our establishments and sampling our foods from around the world,” said Jacob Loeb, President of the 82nd Avenue Business Association. “However, we hope people will not wait until crews complete the work. Our small businesses depend on customers showing up throughout the year, and their patronage during construction would be the best way to show support."
Full details, updates available from PBOT

Paving this summer will begin in NE Portland and move to different sections, roughly a month at a time. From week to week, work schedules are weather dependent, but hours are expected to generally stay between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

To learn more about the 82nd Avenue Major Maintenance Project, including updates on construction throughout the summer, and to sign up to receive construction updates by email or text message, visit portland.gov/82nd-MM.

#PBOT #Portland #Oregon #PDX #streets #transportation

More than a dozen states slapped the #Trump admin w/2 new lawsuits on Tues, accusing it of withholding funding for both #emergency relief & #transportation in retaliation for the states’ #immigration policies.

The pair of lawsuits, both filed in #RhodeIsland federal court, are the latest of several dozen state challenges to the admin’s unprecedented cuts to federally approved #funding for state #aid.

#law #extortion #MafiaState

Montreal to install 11,000 additional charging stations for electric vehicles by 2030

#ClimateChange #Transportation #EVChargingStations #CleanEnergy #Montreal #cdnpoli

https://cultmtl.com/2025/05/city-of-montreal-to-install-11000-additional-charging-stations-for-electric-vehicles-by-2030/

"For all its problems, the L holds great significance for Chicagoans. It’s more than a means of moving people around — it’s integral to the city’s character."

Tal Rosenberg for Chicago Magazine: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/may-2025/the-l-in-crisis/

#Longreads #Cities #UrbanPlanning #Chicago #Transit #Transportation #Subway

The cannabis consumers of Oregon helped finance this PBOT street upgrade, which includes protected bike lanes next to sidewalks:

"Beginning on Monday, May 5, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) will be repairing and repaving SE Stark Street from SE 108th to 122nd avenues as part of the bureau's $23 million multi-phase Safer Outer Stark project. The work is expected to take approximately sixteen business days.

Maintenance crews will work from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on business days, starting at the eastern end of the project area at SE 122nd and Stark along north curbside lane. Crews will continue working westward to SE 108th Avenue before moving to the other half of the street and repairing the eastbound lanes starting at SE 108th Avenue and heading east.

The traveling public is advised to expect delays, travel cautiously, observe all closures and directions by flaggers, and use alternate routes if possible. Local access to residences and businesses will remain available. A minimum of one motor vehicle lane will remain open in each direction as work progresses. Sidewalks will remain open at all times for pedestrians. Public transit riders should check TriMet.org for service impacts.

This work is weather-dependent, and the schedule may change.

The paving work is the third phase of PBOT’s Safer Outer Stark project, a multi-phase investment strategy to help address the serious safety issues along the high crash corridor. Once paving work is complete, protected bike lanes will also be added. Additional safety improvements, as well as paving SE Stark Street from 122nd to 162nd avenues, will follow in 2026.

PBOT began constructing safety improvements on SE Stark Street following an 18-month public engagement and planning phase conducted in 2019-20. In 2020, the bureau installed new street lighting between SE 108th and 162nd avenues, filling in gaps along the corridor. In 2023, a new traffic signal and pedestrian crossing improvements were installed at SE 146th Avenue and Stark Street.

While talking to community groups about how to improve the corridor, PBOT was able to identify several project goals and community priorities:

Reduce deadly and serious crashes for all people using all modes of transportation
Reduce excess motor vehicle speeds
Provide safer access and crossings for people walking, rolling, and accessing transit
Support future development of enhanced transit along the corridor
Improve street condition
Improve comfort and visibility for all users, especially pedestrians and people biking

Following the planning phase, PBOT developed a multi-phase investment strategy to help address the serious safety issues along the corridor.

The total estimated budget across all phases is approximately $23 million. Funding includes $11 million from Build Portland (City General Fund), $6 million from Oregon House Bill 2017, $2 million in Transportation System Development Charges, $1 million in Fixing Our Streets funds, $500,000 in Cannabis Tax funds and $1.5 million in federal funds."

#PBOT #Portland #Oregon #transportation

"Several U.S. regional climate centers shut down Thursday — including those in the Midwest, Great Plains and South.

Those three centers are responsible for collecting weather data across 21 states, as well as sharing drought conditions and other online tools. But their operations ceased at midnight on Thursday due to a lapse in federal funding..."

https://www.stlpr.org/2025-04-18/regional-climate-centers-shut-down-abruptly

#PublicHealth #weather #climate #drought #temperatures #agriculture #farming #healthcare #transportation #NOAA #USpol

Kofuku Train Station in Obihiro, Japan

On an abandoned railway line, "happiness" station is still a popular destination for lovers.#station #transportation #abandoned #valentinesday #love #trainstations #trains #section-Atlas
Kofuku Train Station

Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but before we bother building more trains, we need to build more mixed-use apartment buildings in town and city centers. No point in trains if there aren't concentrations of populations to use them. #urbanism #architecture #planning #transit #transportation

PBOT does not want you to die.

"Stay away!
The area is NOT SAFE for anyone

(April 4, 2025) The Portland Bureau of Transportation advises the traveling public that SW Tichner Drive will remain closed until further notice, between West Burnside and SW Kingston Avenue, due to continued risk from a landslide.

It is crucial for the public to avoid the area, which remains at risk of another slide at any time. Do not go past any barricades.

On Saturday, March 29, hundreds of cubic yards of rocky material broke free from a steep, 100-foot tall rock face. The dislodged rock mass landed primarily in a PBOT sand storage lot below, but some rocks the size of bowling balls spilled onto SW Tichner Drive.

A similar mass adjacent to that one is poised to fall, this time directly onto the roadway. It could fall at any time—without prior warning.

We ask the public to avoid the area and expect delays if traveling in the vicinity near Washington Park. Follow the signed detour route via SW Vista Avenue and SW Park Place through Washington Park.

Use caution and travel slowly on the detour route, which may have more traffic than normal.

Stay away! Acute risk remains of large rocks to fall at any time

Landslides are highly unpredictable and can be very dangerous. We have closed SW Tichner Drive for safety and ask that the public stay a safe distance from the area.

It is closed to all travel, including anyone driving, walking, biking or using a mobility device.

PBOT engineers are monitoring the area closely and have observed indications of additional movement and rockfall this week.

PBOT is consulting with geotechnical engineers with the Bureau of Environmental Services on next steps. PBOT also expects to hire a contractor that specializes in stabilizing and protecting sheer rock walls, with special materials, equipment and techniques.

Once it is safe for city crews to work at the site, PBOT will need to orchestrate the removal of many dump truck loads of material to be loaded and trucked out of the area.

There is no estimate for how long it will take to accomplish the work needed to make the area safe.

The roadway will be re-opened once it is determined the area is stable and protective measures are in place.

PBOT is the city's lead for response to flooding and landslides that impact city streets. In recent months, crews have cleared several slides that had impacts on city streets.

Barricades and signs mark the closure of SW Tichner Drive. The area is not safe for travel by any mode of transportation because of a landslide. Photo by PBOT.
Stay informed with email, text alerts and report road hazards to PBOT

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Notices are also posted to PBOT's X/Twitter account @PBOTinfo and web site portland.gov/transportation

For more information on landslides in Portland, see the PBOT website on landslides, flooding and sandbags.

Report road hazards including downed trees or water blocking travel lanes to PBOT’s 24-hour hotline: pdxroads@portlandoregon.gov or 503-823-1700."

#PBOT #Portland #Oregon #transportation #hazard

20 Cola Museum in Kragujevac, Serbia

A unique museum documents pop culture and bicycles from the 20th century Serbia.#youth #toymuseums #toys #transportation #museumsandcollections #museums #popculture #bicycles #section-Atlas
20 Cola Museum