Year: 2007

  • Very Articulate CRC Dissent

    Occasional Portland Transport contributor (and frequent commenter) Lenny Anderson had an excellent op-ed piece in Friday’s Tribune: “For change, reduce trips”

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Bikey New Year

    We celebrate the new year with the Trash Mountain Boys live in the studio. We’ll also be asking for your new year bikey resolutions and hopes for a great bike town. 9-10AM, Wednesday, January 2nd KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that day

  • A Look Back: The Highway of the Future

    Solar- and atomic-powered cars that don’t need to be refueled. Lanes on the highway color coded for destination. Atomic tunnel boring machines that melt rock away and prefabricated bridges allow for infrastructure to be constructed in mere minutes. Cars with television screens that show maps of your present location as you drive. Decentralized cities linked…

  • Federal rules prefer buses over streetcar expansion

    An article in Thursday’s Oregonian explains how the Bush administration’s rules attempt to prevent streetcar lines from competing with bus rapid transit for federal funds. To quote Peter DeFazio: “It’s set up to make streetcar never pencil out.” Here’s how: At stake is about $200 million in federal money that could provide the first national…

  • PSU Transportation Courses – Winter 2008

    We are pleased to announce the transportation courses listed below for Winter 2008 (January 7 through March 21, 2008). You are welcome to enroll in these courses even if you are not a PSU student–use the quick entry program: http://www.pdx.edu/admissions/ugrad_qkentry_apply.html. We offer master’s degree programs in urban & regional planning and civil & environmental engineering,…