Month: February 2009

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: New Time Slot!

    Note new time slot: 11am – Noon Let’s Celebrate Amazing Cyclists! Oregon is an amazing place to ride a bike not just because of the work of local and state governments. Ordinary citizens like you and me have worked tirelessly over the years in their own unique ways to improve the cycling landscape. Tune in…

  • T4America Launches Campaign for Reauthorization Bill

    Transportation for America has launched an advocacy campaign for the new transportation reauthorization bill: As debate opens on the next transportation spending bill, a poll released today by the National Association of Realtors and Transportation for America found that the American people overwhelmingly favor a more diverse and smarter portfolio of investments in public transportation,…

  • Hell Freezes Over, Congestion Gets Better

    The Business Journal is reporting on data collected by Inrix, a traffic data provider, that indicates congestion improved in our region between 2007 and 2008, with the region moving from the 21st most-congested metro to 23rd.

  • CRC: Build it Big, Then Manage it?

    Coverage of the new ‘bi-state’ compromise on the Columbia River Crossing in the Oregonian, along with an editorial by the Mayors of Portland and Vancouver. This one is going to take a LOT of trust.

  • Development-Oriented Transit: Bus, Trolley Bus and Streetcar

    How do we create pedestrian-friendly mainstreets and 20-minute neighborhoods? At the beginning of the last century Streetcars were the preferred tool, and here in Portland they are again at the beginning of this century here in Portland and increasingly in other U.S. cities. Of course it is not simply a matter of installing rails in…