Month: July 2007

  • Back to School

    Well, maybe not yet. But it’s not too soon to think about the fall PSU/PDOT Traffic and Transportation Class. As I’ve said in the past, this is a great way to get launched into transportation activism (it worked for me) or to raise the level of your game if you’re already an activist. Run, don’t…

  • Department of Ag to Test Biodiesel

    The Daily Journal of Commerce reports that the Oregon Department of Agriculture will be assuring that you don’t put any dirty biodiesel in your tank… Portland City Council will help pick up the tab.

  • Macquarie Bypasses Dundee

    According to the Saturday O, Australia-based Macquarie has thrown in the towel on the Newberg-Dundee bypass project. Apparently ODOT has concluded that there is too much opposition to tolling Highway 99, which parallels the proposed new facility, and without tolls both routes, there is insufficient revenue to make the project fly.

  • Seventy “Citizen Planners” Plot Streetcar Future

    On Saturday morning, seventy community members spent three hours at PSU brainstorming potential future corridors as an informal kick-off to the City-wide rail plan process that will formally launch in September. A few common themes emerged: Heading north on MLK or Williams/Vancouver to Alberta or Killingsworth Heading east on Hawthorne, Division or Woodstock, ultimately connecting…

  • 900:10 Opportunity

    Factoid from today’s regional Streetcar conference. Prague in the Czech Republic with a regional population of about 1.9M has a Streetcar fleet of 900 vehicles. Portland, with its regional population of 2.1M has 10 cars in its fleet. Room for growth :-)