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Metro President Candidates on Bikes, Peds and Freight
The fifth and final installment of our series on responses to our candidate questionnaire. Please remember the ground rules on comments for this series There are some special rules for comments on these posts. As a 501(c)(3), Portland Transport cannot and does not endorse candidates. So please no comments of the form “you should vote…
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Quote of the Week: “Of course, one planner’s sprawl is another’s economic development.”
From an article in the Daily Journal of Commerce suggesting that just maybe the Columbia River Crossing is going to increase sprawl.
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Metro President Candidates on Transit
Part Four of our series on responses to our candidate questionnaire. Please remember the ground rules on comments for this series There are some special rules for comments on these posts. As a 501(c)(3), Portland Transport cannot and does not endorse candidates. So please no comments of the form “you should vote for _______ because…
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City Club’s Big Ideas for Transportation Governance
City Club of Portland has just released its transportation governance study report: “Moving Forward: A Better Way to Govern Regional Transportation” (PDF, 5.5M). Among the big ideas for reforming transportation governance in our region: Shift most of the money that ODOT spends inside the region (other than for the freeway system) to be programmed by…
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Oregonian Lays Off Transportation Reporter
Dylan Rivera, who for the last several years has covered the transportation beat, was laid off from the Oregonian today, along with more than 30 others from the newsroom. This will likely leave Joseph Rose, who has lately transitioned from the ‘commuting’ beat (and still maintains the “Hard Drive” blog) to a more general transportation…