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Bike and Ped Planning Course on Offer at PSU
Taught by the inestimable Mia Birk: “Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning” Tuesdays 1-4 3 units, the nuts and bolts of how to plan and engineer a city for bicycles and pedestrians. Portland is the best place to learn this in the US. Guest lecturers from across the city and other government agencies, you’ll be fully qualified…
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Two from Elsewhere
Joseph Rose at the O digs into how MAX cars count bodies. Streetsblog has a nice piece on the difference on how tax law subsidizes parking much more than transit.
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Learning from Copenhagen
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2009 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Niels Jensen, City of Copenhagen Traffic and Road Department Topic: Creating a City of Cyclists: What We Can Learn from Copenhagen When: Friday, Oct 2, 2009, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
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Four RTP Hearings Left
Don’t miss your opportunity to comment on the Regional Transportation Plan: Thursday, Oct. 1 4 p.m. (open house) | 5:15 p.m. (hearing) Gresham Conference Center, 1333 NW Eastman Parkway, Gresham Spanish translation provided Thursday, Oct. 8 4 p.m. (open house) | 5:15 p.m. (hearing) Happy Valley City Hall, 16000 SE Misty Dr., Happy Valley Tuesday,…
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Mistakes Avoided
The Portland Mercury has a nice piece on “Dead Freeways“, planned freeways for Portland that were never built.