Month: January 2006

  • Aging Out of your Car, Gracefully

    This is the second gem Dave Brook has passed along this week. Here’s a program in the other Portland where older drivers trade in their cars for credits towards rides. Dave wants to know if anyone locally is working to set up something like this? Sounds like a natural for Ride Connection.

  • The Regional Business Plan on Transportation

    Last week I attended the Oregon Business Plan Summit. The Summit was also the occasion of the release of the first ever Regional Business Plan. Just as I found many things to like in the state plan, there is much to like about the regional plan. I could hardly have written a better set of…

  • KBOO Bike Show needs bike songs

    Ayleen passes along the following call for help: Hey Folks, We’re in need of bike songs. We always end the show with a bike song, but the ones we have are getting a little stale after so many years. We’ve got the Ken Southerland mix from Bikesummer we know all those. If you have songs,…

  • Advising PDOT

    As I’ve mentioned before, this year I’m sitting on PDOT’s budget advisory committee. We met last week to digest the results of the outreach and to review staff’s preliminary recommendations on cuts. The meeting opened with a review of the public outreach. There was a lot of discussion about whether there was a bias from…

  • Virtual Busways on Toll Lanes?

    Dave Brook forwarded this interesting piece from the San Fancisco Chronicle on merging tolls with bus rapid transit. While the idea is up for consideration in the Bay Area, it apparently is going to be tried in Houston. The basic idea is to put toll lanes alongside regular lanes, and control usage of the toll…