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What Should We Tell the Drivers?
Join us for a SPECIAL Transportation Seminar next Monday, August 5th Speaker: Professor Klaus Bogenberger Topic: Measuring the Quality of Traveler Traffic Information As we all know, the quality of traffic information is usually defined in terms of quantitative technical characteristics that relate almost exclusively to the way that the information is broadcast. This ignores…
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TriMet Takes $10 Million Hit from ERB, Claims Victory
Both ATU and TriMet appear to be claiming victory in in the recent ruling by the Oregon Employee relations board. It would appear that TriMet does indeed get the contract imposed by the arbitrator (good news), but cannot collect retroactive health-care contributions from employees (bad news) and must refund some contributions (more bad news). TriMet’s…
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Dissecting Curb Parking
Alan Durning has an outstanding post over at Sightline looking at the policy and expectations around residential curbside parking, including this gem: Urban planners and lawyers may think of on-street parking as public property: a shared, public resource to be managed for the common good. Most home owners–and most voters–think of curb spaces as their…
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A Good Day for Active Transportation at the Legislature
On the final day of its 2013 session, the Oregon Legislature made bike and pedestrian projects eligible for Connect Oregon funding (capital funds fueled by the lottery). They also provided $3.6M for a sidewalk project in East Portland where a young child was killed earlier this year. All in all, a good day!
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KBOO Bike Show: Oregon Scenic Bikeways
Listen to the show (mp3, 26.5MB) Tori and Steph talk with Alex Phillips, Bicycle Recreation Coordinator at Oregon Parks and Recreation, and Kristin Dahl of Travel Oregon about riding around Oregon and the system of scenic bikeways.