Month: October 2010

  • What Point in our Region Has the Most Access to Destinations via Transit?

    According to the work for our Transit Equity project, SW 10th and Yamhill is the winner with a 93 Transit Score. I couldn’t find any points on the Transit Mall higher than 92. My guess is that the access to the additional destinations reached by Streetcar provides a slight edge. Of course our process just…

  • Not-to-be-missed Webinar

    This summer I enthused about a presentation by Dr. Eric France, a preventative medicine specialist from Kaiser in Denver who was visiting our region to learning about cycling here. Dr. France is back home and is about to give the presentation as a webinar on Monday from 11am-noon (that’s 12-1 Mountain Time). If you didn’t…

  • One of the Keys to Sustainable Freight: Full Trucks

    I’m serving on a small working group that is trying to develop some high-level ideas for how the City of Portland could encourage more sustainable freight. It’s a little bit of a mind-bender, because all of my urban design sensibilities push for smaller vehicles. But in fact from a fuel efficiency perspective, there is a…

  • Sellwood Bridge Détente Apparently Reached

    As reported by the Mercury, Sam will apparently settle for a share of savings generated by value engineering.

  • KBOO Bike Show: The New Guy

    Listen to the show (mp3, 26.1MB) Hosts Lindsay and Tori talk with the BTA‘s new executive director, Rob Sadowsky. Tune-in to hear Rob’s vision for improving conditions for bicycling in Oregon and how he likes his new role after a few months on the job.