Portland Transport

Month: April 2012

  • Low-Stress Bicycling and Bike Network Connectivity

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2012 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Peter Furth (Northeastern University) Topic: Low-Stress Bicycling and Bike Network Connectivity When: Friday, May 4th, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204

  • 5 Surprising Things our Low-car Voter Guide Taught Me About the Local Elections

    This guest post is by Michael Andersen, editor of Portland Afoot, PDX’s 10-minute newsmagazine about buses, bikes & low-car life. Thanks to the heroic efforts of a handful of volunteers for Bike Walk Vote, there’s been quite a bit of attention in this election season to local candidates’ positions on bicycling and walking. But the…

  • We’re Number 10!

    Transit service is a painful topic right now, but we might want to take a second to remember that relative to a lot of other places, we’re still in a pretty good place (but will never be complacent). The good folks at WalkScore have released a ranking of major metros by their aggregate TransitScore –…

  • TriMet publishes proposed FY13 budget

    TriMet has published its proposed FY13 budget. I’ll peruse it a bit more myself later tonight, but a few observations courtesy of OPAL after the jump (sorry, Facebook access required for the OPAL link).

  • More Reflections on car2go

    Now that car2go has been in operation for a few weeks, I’ve had a chance to use it a handful of times and have some additional observations. There’s also been more than a little chatter on the interwebs among transportation advocates that car2go makes it too convenient to use a car! In my own use,…