Portland Transport

Month: May 2012

  • Southwest Corridor BRT?

    In the previous post, we noted that Metro had approved study for the Powell/Division corridor. A Metro planner indicated that the region in the future would be pursuing a less capital intensive strategy in the future, and hinted that the Southwest Corridor might just not be light rail. The Southwest Corridor stretches roughly from downtown…

  • Metro green-lights study of Powell/Division corridor, hints at broader BRT future.

    At it’s recent Thursday meeting, the Metro board voted 7-0 to move forward with a study of the Powell/Division Transit Corridor. The corridor in question stretches from Portland State University out to Gresham, centered on SE Powell Boulevard and SE Division Street, ending around Mount Hood Community College. (A full-size pdf of the above map…

  • The catch-22 of bicycle safety

    As many of you have heard, a few nights ago a 29-year old woman riding her bicycle downtown was struck and killed by a truck. Several weeks ago, an 11-year old boy in Vancouver was struck and killed by a C-TRAN bus. The response in more than a few media sources was “oh dear, urban…

  • Celebrating in SE

    It would appear the Feds are about to open up the piggy bank for their share of the Portland-to-Milwaukie Light Rail line.

  • Open Data Guide

    Transit, both schedule data and real-time vehicle location (AVL – Automatic Vehicle Location) data, has been the poster child and first set of killer apps for open government data. Here’s a nice survey article on the topic: http://wagner.nyu.edu/blog/rudincenter/open_data_guide/