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Follow-Up: Police presence on MAX
The Gresham Outlook has a new article about the increased police presence on MAX in the Gresham area. The full article details the efforts of police and the reaction of the riders. The end of the article provides 3 weeks’ worth of statistics, the first of which I’ll excerpt here: Week one: Nov. 7-12 800…
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For Whom The Bridge Tolls
An article in last week’s Willamette Week discusses the likelihood that someday we may need to toll the Willamette River bridges to fund their maintenance. This is notoriously a difficult idea to sell to the constituents of Portland, and an increase in vehicle registration fees seems to be much more likely in the near term.…
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Portland’s Cycling History
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Eric Lundgren Topic: The Wheels of Fortune: Weather Prophet Pague, Governor Geer, & Portland’s Original Network of Cycle Paths A little over a century ago Portland was building and enjoying a network of dedicated bicycle paths. For a brief and glorious half-decade,…
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CRC: Here We Go Again
Staff has released about 280 pages of meeting materials [here (PDF, 7MB) and here (PDF, 7MB)] in advance of Tuesday’s Task Force Meeting. Headlines from the staff analysis: Upstream replacement bridge is not recommended for further study. Light Rail provides better long term performance than Bus Rapid Transit. Supplemental Bridge underperforms a Replacement Bridge on…
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Ballot Roundup
Passed on by a reader, here’s a site with a roundup of all the transportation ballot measures voted up or down earlier this month. Reflect on it over your Thanksgiving Holiday. I’ll be giving thanks for our contributors and readers here at Portland Transport! — Chris