Month: October 2006

  • Portland Videos on Streetsblog

    Filmmaker Clarence Eckerson (featured at Saturday’s film festival) writes: Hello all, There will be a featured Portland video short every day for the next week. HERE: http://www.streetsblog.org/ We want to get a dialogue started, esp. from folks in Portland who’d like to inspire New Yorkers about what else is good/not so good, so PLEASE leave…

  • RTP Exercise – Challenges – Compact Development

    The next phase of the RTP exercise is to look at challenges. [By the way, Jim and Adron, I’m still waiting for your outcome sets to examine in parallel with this one.] As a reminder, my selected outcomes are below. The question for this post is what challenges are getting in the way of making…

  • Crossing Bikes with Rail

    Via the SHIFT list, this is an interesting way to mix modes, especially for all the rail fans in the readership: Monthly Small Museums tour by Bike – Trainspotting! Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave Sat 11/4, 1:00p (Tour will last at least 3 hours, more if interest)) Contact: Carye Bye, 503-248-4454, bathtublady[at]gmail.com Details: This…

  • Smarter Roads

    I had the opportunity to attend a breakfast meeting on Friday, convened by Gail Achterman, a member of the Oregon Transportation Commission. The subject of the meeting was Intelligent Transportation Systems, the whole concept of getting more capacity from our roads and transportation system by using information technology for better coordination and communication. The headline…

  • RTP Exercise – What’s Working? – Compact Development

    So we now begin the 2nd phase of our RTP exercise, by assessing what we’re already doing that helps advance us to our desired outcomes. My set of desired outcomes follows below. I’ve credited the original author and linked to the comment where it shows up in the prior phase. The ground rules for this…