Portland Transport

Month: December 2005

  • For the Geeks: How We Did It – The Portland Bike Channel

    If you’re not into the details of blogging, or web site programming, you can probably skip right now to the next post. But for the geeks, here’s a summary of how we created the Portland Bike Channel site that we launched yesterday. I’m writing about this because I think it’s an interesting story how how…

  • Announcing the “Bike Channel”

    Here at Portland Transport we’re announcing a new site today, which we’re titling “The Portland Bike Channel”. You can find it at http://bikechannel.portlandtransport.com. This is an ‘aggregated’ site. It cotains capsule summaries of the posts to Bike Portland, ORBike and Portland Transport blogs (the bike category only from the latter). The idea is to create…

  • Report from the Budget Forum: Too Much Advocacy?

    Last night a large group crowded into the Plaza Conference Room at the World Trade Center downtown to help give input on how PDOT should deal with a large gap in their budget. The attendees were certainly engaged, but perhaps a little biased. It appears that certain stakeholder groups responded very strongly to Commissioner Adams’…

  • PDOT must Manage, Maintain and Market Portland’s Outstanding Transportation Options

    This post was orginally a comment on TONIGHT: Transportation Budget Forum. Faced with limited resources and growing demand, I expect PDOT to do what any private sector organization would do…increase operational efficiency by: Focusing on key customers…i.e. managing demand, Prioritizing maintenance, and Investing in low cost capital projects that support the management and maintenance strategy,…

  • My Commute: Natalie Ramsland

    Portland Transport is constantly looking out for first person accounts of commutes or trips that shed light on our transportation system, or our attitudes about it. We invite readers to e-mail their stories to webmaster@portlandtransport.com I work as a bike messenger, a job which is an easy spin downtown, downhill from my apartment. I live…