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Faster Cars = Better Air Quality?
One of the fundamental “claims” of the Columbia River Crossing is that by reducing backed up traffic, air quality will improve. This week’s PSU seminar tackles whether that assumption in transportation projects holds true. Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Alex Bigazzi, Portland State University Topic: Can Congestion…
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Time to reboot the Sellwood Bridge?
A re-evaluation of the whole Sellwood Bridge project, in light of the recent funding defeat in Clackamas County
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Safety First!
Transportation for America has released a new report “Dangerous by Design” (PDF, 1.6M) scoring safety for people walking and riding bicycles state by state and metro area by metro area. Oregon’s rankings are here. Portland ranked as the 7th least dangerious metro, but there are still far too many injuries and deaths and we have…
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Streets for Aging Boomers
As someone who in the last few years has become “AARP-eligible”, this becomes more interesting every year: Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speakers: Margaret Neal, Jennifer Dill, Arlie Adkins, Gretchen Luhr, Portland State University Topic: Demonstrating the Benefits of Green Streets for Active Aging http://www.cts.pdx.edu/research/sustainablestreets.php When: Friday, May…
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Kickstart Sunday Parkways
I had a blast yesterday riding around car-free streets in East Portland during the first Sunday Parkways event of the year (four more to come!). There’s a Kickstarter campaign under way to help support these events, and as I write this, with just 16 hours to go until the deadline, the effort is just $415…