Month: May 2007

  • Bicycle and Pedestrian Overcrossings/Carsharing Payment Integration

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Rory Renfro and Max Coffman, PSU Master’s of Urban Studies and Planning Candidates Two Topics: Bicycle and Pedestrian Overcrossings AND Carsharing Payment Integration When: Friday, May 25, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center

  • USA Today Info Graphic Outlines Gasoline Price Elasticity

    It speaks for itself.

  • 82nd Ave Safety Open Houses Start Tonight

    From PDOT: COMMUNITY OUTREACH OPEN HOUSES – SAVE THE DATE! 82ND AVENUE OF ROSES HIGH CRASH CORRIDOR SAFETY PROJECT Over the next year the Portland Office of Transportation (PDOT) and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) will be working together to improve traffic and transportation safety along the 82nd Avenue of Roses corridor. We’ll be…

  • Parting Shot

    Randy Gragg is leaving the Oregonian. And in his final column on Sunday (maddeningly, it doesn’t seem to be on OregonLive – go out and find a copy), Gragg throws down the gauntlet and suggests that our region is now approaching transit with timid incrementalism, while other regions are passing $10 and $15B packages for…

  • Suburb to Suburb

    Jim Mayer has a stark piece in Sunday’s O about the difficulty of moving between suburbs on transit (with accompanying map [PDF, 2.5M] and analysis of potential solutions). There’s no denying the problem, but how do we make the economics work for relatively lower-density/ridership routes (or are there high-ridership potential routes)? I was struck by…