Month: September 2009

  • Local Realtor Gets National Exposure

    Portland’s own “Bike Realtor”, Kirsten Kaufman, is the featured guest on this week’s Smart City radio program. Go Kirsten!

  • Transit Info Envy

    Streetsblog in New York is decrying the state of available online transit info from the MTA and holding up Portland as the shining example.

  • Reviewing the iPhone Transportation Apps

    Via the Trillium Solutions blog: “Traffic” author Tom Vanderbilt catalogs iPhone apps.

  • Portland to Astoria via Tillamook

    Thanks to the correspondent who writes that you can get from Portland to Astoria via TriMet, the Tillamook County Transportation District and the Sunset Empire Transportation District purely on scheduled transit. But the real news is that you can plan the entire trip on Google Transit. That’s the value of standards and open data. Let’s…

  • Help Shape Regional Transportation Policy

    Metro is recruiting for citizen representatives to serve on TPAC. To be sure, it’s heavily technocratic, but the several years I spent on TPAC were a tremendous learning experience, and you do get to nudge a little bit on the direction of policy: September 18, 2009 Dear TPAC Interested Parties: The Transportation Policy Alternatives Committee…