Month: March 2007

  • Hybrid Heaven

    Courtesy of Richard “Creative Class” Florida, it’s official: Metropolitan areas where hybrids are most popular Rank Metropolitan Area Hybrids per 1000 Households* Portland, OR 11.19 San Francisco, CA 8.76 Monterey, CA 6.83 Santa Barbara, CA 6.08 Los Angeles 5.60 Bend, OR 5.35 Washington, DC 5.06 San Diego 5.00 Charlottesville, VA 4.87 Eugene 4.64 Seattle 4.26…

  • Making Friends

    A nice piece in the Trib about efforts for the Streetcar Loop and Milwaukie Light Rail projects to partner, rather than compete, on raising funds. After all, we’re going to share a bridge – it hardly pays to be shooting at each other :-)

  • High Capacity Transit in Clark County? Oh My!

    According to the Daily Journal of Commerce, a committee is looking at long term plans for where high capacity transit would make sense in Clark County. Through a series of public meetings, the Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council will work with a steering committee of policymakers and a citizens’ advisory task force to identify the…

  • Ron Buel on CRC

    Ron (who has a storied history of civic involvement in Portland, including being a leader in Riverfront for People) has a nice opinion piece yesterday’s O about changing the direction of the Columbia River Crossing project.

  • From Policy to Practice: Clearing Accidents

    A few months ago I wrote about discussion initiated in Commissioner Adams’ Transportation Operations Steering Committee to clear non-injury accidents from our freeways faster as one relatively inexpensive way to reduce congestion. Yesterday in the Trib we read about initial implementation steps for this policy. That’s a pretty fast translation of policy to action in…