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Crime cars and crime roads
The statistics are staggering. According to a study conducted in the 1990s over a six-year period, over 200 Americans were killed and over 12,000 injured were documented in over ten thousand road rage incidents. These statistics only count documented road rage incidents, where a police report and/or insurance claim was filed; countless other instances of…
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How do we define “success”?
I’ve harped quite a bit on the importance of understanding TriMet’s mission, and so will now ask a related question: How do we define “success”? Cascade Policy Institute recently wrote an article claiming that only 7% of attendees at a recent performance of a Cirque du Soleil show at the Expo Center arrived via MAX.…
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Join Me in Supporting Sunday Parkways
Portland has announced the schedule for Sunday Parkways this year (its fifth year). And as in prior years, perhaps even more important this year because of the City budget, the request for fundraising has gone out as well. Last week I made my contribution of $100 to the “Every Dollar Counts” campaign for Sunday Parkways.…
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Our Occasional CRC Update
The Columbia River Crossing is the project that keeps on giving. Some recent developments and opinions: The Columbian reports that the City of Vancouver is blocking a C-Tran public vote on funding for light rail operations – continuing the trend of doing everything possible to avoid confronting actually paying for this bridge. Ethan Seltzer points…
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TriMet releases final* FY13 budget, cuts (UPDATEDx2)
Release here. Appears to have the same stuff as before, with a few other service notes. * The 9 will only serve Powell Boulevard. The Northeast segment of the 9 will be combined with the 17. This was previously hinted at, but is now official. * TriMet will add service on lines 4, 9, 33,…