Month: May 2008

  • Imagine 82nd

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: InSight Visioning and Planning, PSU MURP Workshop Project team Topic: Imagine 82nd InSight, a team of graduate students in PSU’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning program, will present their Planning Workshop project entitled “Imagine 82nd.” The project engaged residents, businesses, property…

  • Trouble with One Wheel on Four Wheels?

    I’ve gotten word from the unicycle community (yes, Portland has a unicycle community) that TriMet is apparently cracking down on allowing folks to take their one-wheeled rides onto buses with them. Unicycle riders, can you confirm? Anyone from TriMet care to enlighten us on what office policy is?

  • Three Metro Councilors Suggest Tolling CRC FIRST

    The Oregonian is reporting that that Metro Councilors Liberty, Collette and Hosticka are set to introduce a resolution calling for tolling the I-5 Columbia Crossing before before building a new bridge. “That would give us the information we don’t have right now, which is how would people react to having to pay for the project?”…

  • Sign of Times to Come?

    OK, so the photo is from the last price spike (hat tip to the reader who sent it to me then). But the O is reporting that gas prices are up 36 cents in the last month.

  • 13 Groups Request CRC Comment Period Extension

    Led by the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, thirteen organizations have signed on to a letter (PDF, 81K) requesting an additional 60 days be added to the comment period for the Columbia River Crossing Draft Environmental Impact statement. From the letter: Concerned citizens and implicated agencies cannot adequately participate in the NEPA process if they are…