Portland Transport

Month: September 2007

  • Debunking Squared

    Earlier this year the Cato Institute published a “Debunking Portland” report by Randall O’Toole. The Congress for New Urbanism has now published a “Debunking Cato” report that refutes many of the assertions of O’Toole’s report. While I’m glad someone has our back, I’d rather just keep putting energy into making Portland better.

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: New Vehicular Homicide Law

    Bike lawyer Ray Thomas will answer all your legal questions and talk about the new Vehicular Homicide law. 9-10AM, Wednesday, October 3rd KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that day

  • At a Crossroads

    If you have not already noticed in the local media and blogosphere – you should in the next day or so – I’m embarking on a new project. I won’t talk about it here, as electoral politics are not appropriate for a blog organized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit. But the upshot is that I’m going…

  • TriMet TV?

    Apparently TriMet is going to start video podcasting. I’ll wait and see a few episodes before passing judgement :-)

  • Sprawl Will Trump Fuel Efficiency

    Via Planetizen: A new report (as reported in the Detroit Free Press) from the Urban Land Institute suggests that increased Vehicle Miles Traveled due to sprawl will increase greenhouse gas production faster than more efficient vehicles will reduce them. Compare that to our region, where we are keeping VMT constant or reducing it slightly even…