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Desktop Transit Info Appliance
I’ve been playing around with using inexpensive internet devices as displays for transit arrival information, looking for something that will scale inexpensively. I’ve been having some fun with WiFi picture frames, but haven’t found one with quite the right features yet. I’ve had slightly more success with a gadget called a ‘Chumby‘. Here’s mine sitting…
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When the Oil Runs Out…
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: David L. Goodstein, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology Topic: Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil Flier with abstract: http://www.cts.pdx.edu/Goodstein%20Flyer.pdf Speaker sponsored by the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium Visiting Scholarship Program When:…
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Earl: CRC is a Metaphor
Speaking tonight at the Portland Spaces/City Club “Bright Lights” event, Earl Blumenauer said the the Columbia River Crossing was a metaphor for the lack of consensus for a transportation vision in our region, comparing it to “the desire for an eight-lane freeway from I-205 to Highway 26 that would turn I-205 into a parking lot…
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Watch the Stimulus Package Carefully
Friday’s O details the transportation ask from Portland and other local electeds for the stimulus package that everyone expects Congress to take up shortly. One thing to be careful of – under current rules at the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration it’s probably much easier to get road projects up and running…
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Updated: Sellwood Options Defined
Updated: 11/08/08 Full documents now available. Original Post: 10/28/08 While the final report will not be out until next month, today’s O has an infographic with the major options for dealing with the Sellwood.