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Transit Board
This post is part of a series documenting the transit tools offered by Portland Transport. Transit Board™ is a web browser interface designed to be used in a fixed location, perhaps as a kiosk or as an intranet page for a company office, allowing users to see multiple transit lines departing from a particular place…
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Complete Streets Get Some Respect
Via Planetizen: “The concept of ‘complete streets’ — with bike lanes, sidewalks and room for mass transit — has attracted a diverse national alliance of supporters, including advocates for senior citizens and the disabled.” “Fourteen states, six counties, 10 regional governments and 52 cities have complete streets policies, according to the National Complete Streets Coalition.…
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Documenting our Transit Tools
Just a heads up that this week you’re going to see some posts that are intended to hang around as documentation for our various transit tools. They’ll be written less in a ‘current’ tense and more in an archival kind of way.
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LOPAC Divided
Update: 8/9/07 Here’s the actual recommendation document (PDF, 490K). Original Post: 7/12/07 According to coverage in the Daily Journal of Commerce the Lake Oswego Transit Alternatives Analysis Project Advisory Committee (LOPAC in Metro acronym-ese) is divided on the mode choice. The area subcommittees for the north and south segments favor Streetcar while the segment in…
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More Green Streets
The City of Portland is ramping up its efforts to make our streets more environmentally friendly. From the Daily Journal of Commerce: A policy approved by Portland City Council in April makes green street features like curb extensions, bioswales and stormwater planter systems a required part of all city-funded infrastructure projects in the public right-of-way.