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My apologies for dragging up an old topic, but does anybody know if the new platforms at Andover and Ballardvale will have at-grade level pedestrian crossings between the two platforms? I ask because this will have a major impact on freight operations as freight trains are prohibited from...

Thank you for the advice Patrick, Coming out of the film/video world, I am all to aware of how something seemingly simple can be the ultimate undoing of a project. In the case of "CarFree Maine" I have been very careful to separate information/educational media from any...

Hello Everybody, I've been putting together a little slideshow for carfreemaine.org of Maine development highlights for 2011 and another for projects in the pipeline for 2012. Its amazing how much has actually been accomplished this year! I guess its always good to stop and reflect in the...

I'm not sure if the link will work but I've been maintaining a flickr set that documents the design and construction of the Brunswick Station (formerly Maine Street Station) TOD in Brunswick. You can find it here. The initial stages of the development are nearly complete and the only...

I like the idea's too!

I noticed mention of a "Complete Streets" Agenda item for the Portland Transportation Committee tomorrow night. Is this the first that they've attempted any sort of discussion around "Complete Streets"? Last I Checked, Maine is one of the last states to not have a single municipality pass a CS...

Count me in for a Meetup! I already have an account under "Car Free Maine" if nobody else wants to set one up...

Its funny. Just as I thought I was getting a little too far-out there with my whole "Transit Map subconscious" theory I find this blog post from the top transit app developer for the MBTA- http://nextransit.org/blog/2011/02/is-transit-just-an-overlay/ I also found out about this design...

BTW has anybody ever pointed out that Lee Urban has the most job-appropriate name EVER?! For all I know I've been talking to him on this thread, but that would be like me having a name like "Andrew Freelance-Multimedia-Carfreetransitplanningadvocate"!

This forum is way too reasonable and constructive! Jeez, you guys could learn a thing or two from transit forums. THOSE guys know how to argue!!! You're supposed to completely demonize your opponents position and divide each point according to overly-simplistic ideological assumptions... Just...

Back to Portland... or South Portland rather. Has there been any new development in the Knightville/Mill Creek neighborhood since the "Mill Cove Landing" opened? I drove past there a few months ago and it looked pretty empty. I keep hearing about a new transportation hub at Mill Creek too...

It is nice to put things in context once in awhile huh? Having made the move from NH myself (from North Conway though, not Manchester) I always try to remind myself, while in Freeport for example, that things could be a heck of a lot worse... I bet if you did a search for the word...

Wow! Just when I thought I had scoured every pixel of the Maine Memory Network... I guess I'm gonna have to make it a day and head down to MHS again... Speaking of Car-Free, and mapping... and rail... If you've managed to read through the presentation I put together on...

Yes, this was the presentation I introduced tonight. It was really my first foray into this area so I should probably go back and redo it to some degree. I'm thinking of including some of this info in a short film I'll be producing about rural public transit. Incidentally, I just found an 85...

http://www.slideshare.net/newmediatransit/portland-me-or-presentation Not sure if this link will post, but check out this presentation I've been working on about rail transit in the "two Portlands" (Maine and Oregon)...