Portland Transport

Month: November 2007

  • Watch Our Money Burn Up

    The Sightline Institute has created a little widget that shows us the spending in our state on gas and oil. I thought about putting it in the sidebar for this site, but decided it would be a little busy after the novelty wears off. If you’d like your own copy, you can get it here.…

  • Reading the Tea Leaves

    Proposition 1 up in Puget Sound, with $30B in transit funding and $16B in lane-miles for roads, went down Tuesday. There seem to be a variety of theories on why: Voters were just saying “NO” to new taxes. Voters wanted to pick and choose projects, rather than buy into a bundle. Perhaps most intriguing, the…

  • KBOO Bike Show: Framebuilders

    Listen to the show (mp3, 12.7M) Carl and Tori talk with local framebuilders Natalie Ramsland and Tony Pereira about building bikes in Portland and the upcoming Oregon Handmade Bicycle Show happening on November 11th.

  • Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger: Interstate and Greeley

    Tip of the Hat to Commissioner Sam Adams who closed the right turn from Interstate onto Greeley after the second serious car/bike crash in two weeks. Wag of the Finger to the Portland Police Bureau who declined to issue a citation or conduct an investigation despite eyewitness accounts that would suggest the possibility of erratic…

  • Better Parking

    If there is such a thing :-) The PSU Quarterly Journal on Urban Development (I got it by e-mail, I have not yet found a link) has an interesting article on underground, multi-block parking development (PDF, 1.9M). The virtues of this form of parking are: It’s underground and out of sight. It’s more efficient from…