AWARDS * USA - Eugene, Oregon, Earns Global Recognition for Its Transportation Efforts
Eugene, Oregon, has much to celebrate in its first year of operating the new Emerald Express (EmX) bus rapid transit or BRT, system
Washington,DC,USA -Worldwatch Institute (China), by Joy Chen – February 8, 2008: -- On January 14, the city received a 2008 Sustainable Transport Award “Honorable Mention,” along with Guatemala City and Pereira, Colombia, while the two finalists were London and Paris... Eugene was the only U. S. city selected for the annual award, sponsored by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy... The Bus Rapid Transit Policy Center, an organization based in Washington, D.C., has described the EmX Green Line as “a service that is demonstrating how BRT can be used to deliver premium transit in a small-city environment.” Plans are on schedule to open the Green Line’s extension corridor, the Pioneer Parkway line, in 2010. This new corridor will service an area of higher population density and exploding employment. “When we hear a developer say, ‘I’m putting my business on International Way because I know there will be a future EmX line there,’ that gives us hope that people are starting to catch the vision,” said Vobora... (Video from YouTube, by cmchrismckee -September 23, 2007: "Eugene's EmX Bus System News Package" - A news story on Eugene's new bus rapid transit system. Is it worth the money? And is it saving riders the time they were promised it would save them? Shot, written and edited by myself)
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