Month: April 2008

  • Gas Prices and Housing Bust: Causality or Spurious Correlation?

    You decide (via the Oregonian).

  • The Latest on Transit-Oriented Development

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: GB Arrington, Principal Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking and Jennifer Dill, Portland State University Topic: Transit-Oriented Development: Findings from Recent Research When: Friday, May 2, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204

  • Pedestrian Legal Clinic

    Willamette Pedestrian Coalition would like to invite you to a Pedestrian Legal Clinic REI-Portland May 20, 2008, 6:30 – 8:00 pm, 1405 NW Johnson, Portland Tired of Dodging Cars? Do you feel unsafe walking in your neighborhood? People on foot have rights. Have you almost been hit crossing the street when walking, running, getting to…

  • Basic Equation of Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    Editor’s Note: The following was originally posted to the Oregon Transportation Reform Activists Network (OTRAN) email list (you can subscribe here). Executive Summary In order to actually meet targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Oregon must do the math to determine that proposed steps will be sufficient. I offer the “Basic Equation of Transportation Greenhouse…

  • TriMet Gets Tough

    Via the Daily Journal of Commerce, TriMet has toughened their exclusion policies: TriMet is adding intimidation as behavior restricted on the system, which includes violent, threatening or disruptive behavior or conduct intended and likely to provoke a violent response. TriMet also is adding boisterous and unreasonably loud conduct as a restriction on the system. “These…