Month: January 2009

  • CRC Sponsors Panel to Review Greenhouse Gases on Friday

    The Meeting is 10-noon at the WSDOT HQ in Vancouver: 10:00 – 10:10 a.m. Welcome and Introductions 10:10 – 11:30 a.m. Add/Drop Lanes Decision Process (Cont.): • Overview • Response to Action Items from Last Meeting: – Travel Demand & tolling – Additional Operational Differences – Transit Impacts – Environmental Differences – Cost Related Issues…

  • “Bright Lights” Focus on New Willamette River Bridge

    For its next leg of light-rail, TriMet is proposing what will be downtown’s first new river bridge in 35 years–and the nation’s first-ever transit/pedestrian/bicycle bridge. It’s a trophy in the making to add to Portland’s ever-growing mantel of green alt-transport innovations. But, not surprisingly, a debate is emerging over cost and aesthetics. So for the…

  • KBOO Bike Show: Open House

    Listen to the show (mp3, 27.6MB) Wow! What a banner year for cycling! The KBOO Bike Show celebrates LIVE on the air with our New Year’s Open House. Blind Pilot, a Portland-based rock band that tours by bike, performs live in the studios. We invite people on the air to share their favorite moments of…

  • From Stimulus to Reauthorization

    Even as the New York Times editorializes for a greater role for transit, the buzz in the blogosphere notes that the President-elect again mentioned “roads and bridges” but not transit in his weekly address. The line now being heard is that the stimulus will preserve the existing split between roads and transit and that policy…

  • Facebook to the Rescue?

    Kicking off the spring PSU seminar series: Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2009 Transportation Seminar Series The Winter 2009 Transportation Seminar Series begins this Friday! Speaker: Alison Wiley, Transportation Options Program Manager, Oregon Dept. of Transportation Topic: Global Warming Transportation Solutions Via Social Marketing When: Friday, January 9, 2009, 12:00-1:00p.m. Where: PSU…