Portland Transport

Month: September 2007

  • European Traffic Photos

    Geek Alert! Portland Transport reader (and PDOT safety guru) Greg Raisman just returned from a European vacation, where his wife was tolerant enough to let him take a LOT of pictures of traffic patterns in different cities. Check it out on Flickr.

  • Fall PSU Transportation Courses

    Portland State University Transportation Courses – Fall 2007 We are pleased to announce the following transportation courses for Fall 2007 (September 24 – December 7, 2007). You are welcome to enroll in these courses even if you are not a PSU student–use the quick entry program: http://www.pdx.edu/admissions/ugrad_qkentry_apply.html We offer master’s degree programs in urban &…

  • Bridge To Be

    Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending two hours out on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers on a jet board tour of the ‘working waterfront’ (it included the fastest trip I have ever made between the Hawthorne and Steel bridges). The purpose was to remind regional decision makers (I got on by virtue of my…

  • Corridor of the Future?

    This morning’s O brings with it the news that the Columbia River Crossing Project has successfully competed for a “Corridor of the Future” designation by the Feds. This comes with $15M to help continue the planning for the project. Apparently our future is more lanes and more cars.

  • Another SMS Option

    Just as we had one reader complaining that the text messages from our SMS arrival service are too verbose (not because of us) another reader clued me in to an alternative service called TextMarks. Since we had already developed the terse output for 411sync, it was pretty simple to get an interface to TextMarks going.…