Portland Transport

Month: July 2008

  • Getting to Seattle, One Transit System at a Time

    A request from a reader: This post recently came across the Couchsurfing.com forums: Hi folks, I’ve heard that it is possible to get from Portland to at least Seattle just by taking city & county buses – have any of you done it? I can see how to get from here to the north side…

  • Light Rail’s Next Stop: Oregon City?

    Putting aside the ongoing CRC discussion for a few minutes, an article in Thursday’s Oregonian briefly mentioned that the city of Oregon City has passed a resolution endorsing the Portland-Milwaukie light-rail line LPA that was chosen by the steering committee. The resolution supports the Porter-Sherman Willamette River crossing, the Tillamook Branch alignment in Milwaukie and…

  • EPA Doesn’t Think Much of CRC Either

    From the Oregonian: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds that bridge planners did not adequately examine the potential for a bridge to induce sprawl, increase pollution and contaminate an aquifer that supplies Vancouver and Clark County’s drinking water. Among other things, the DEIS apparently fails to analyze whether they might be driving pilings into (and…

  • Portland’s Next Streetcar

    The Portland Streetcar Board had the opportunity to tour the work on our prototype “made in America” vehicle at Oregon Iron Works on Wednesday.

  • U.S. Maglev System One Step Closer

    Ron Swaren is a regular commenter on Portland Transport. Michael Barkoviak – June 9, 2008 5:50 AM “President Bush signed a transportation bill that will help fund a high speed maglev train between Disneyland and Las Vegas. The initial $45M investment will be used for environmental studies to evaluate construction impact on one portion of…