Portland Transport

Month: November 2009

  • KBOO Bike Show: Community Resources

    Listen to the show (mp3, 28.2MB) Elly and Sara talk with members of the Bike Temple and Bike Farm, two Portland-based community resource centers on a mission to support your spiritual and earthly bike needs. [Editor’s note: I have replaced the audio file with a different version with less hiss – apologies for the poor…

  • How Frequent is Frequent?

    A piece at Human Transit underscores the question: if TriMet drops frequency on it’s “Frequent Service” routes to 17 minutes (the standard TriMet had defined was 15 minutes) are they still frequent?

  • New United Streetcar Video

    OK, it’s blatant promotion – but it’s still a cool story. Check it out on their home page.

  • Ask Not Who Tolls the CRC, it Tolls for Thee

    Monday’s Oregonian points out that the Vancouver mayoral election is the not the definitive word on tolling for the Columbia River Crossing. In fact, tolling will be decided in the state capitols, by the Washington Legislature and the Oregon Transportation Commission. In fact, although the article does not go into this, it would seem more…

  • Who Says Cars Aren’t Subsidized?

    Streetsblog NY does a great job of documenting the fact that the Federal Government’s investment in electric vehicles in six months is greater than the entire annual budget of the Federal Transit Administration. And we won’t even go near the GM bailout.