Month: August 2005

  • KBOO Bike Show: Safety and Bike Blogs

    Listen to the show (mp3, 12.7M) Safety for cyclists Jonathan Maus from bikeportland.org, a popular Portland bike blog, talks about great bike blogs and other bike-related web sites.

  • Moving Freight

    There is a lot of hand-wringing going on in some quarters of the business and transportation policy communities about the “freight problem.” How do we keep trucks moving on what appear to be congested roadways. Curiously, until recently there was only scattered data on this issue; the I-5 Task Force – aka “Trade Partnership” –…

  • Washington County Commuter Rail Back on Track

    US Senator Gordon Smith today met with Washington County officials announcing he has secured a commitment from US Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta to allow the Washington County Commuter Rail project to move forward. The event was held at TriMet’s Beaverton Transit Center, the first station along the 14.7-mile Washington County Commuter Rail project. In…

  • The “Portland Bicycle”

    One of the pieces of news this week from the Federal Transportation Bill was funding to prototype local manufacture of streetcars, so that we might have a true “Portland Streetcar”. Well, Portland Transport doesn’t have $4M for a project, but we do have a very creative audience. On several threads it has been remarked that…

  • We’re Not Alone!

    Speaking of bikes… When we launched this site, we were under the impression that we were starting the first transportation-related blog in the region. But we find that someone got there first, at least for one mode. Jonathan Maus has been running Bike Portland for a while now, moving it from Oregon Live to its…