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Streetcar faces funding issues
On the heels of an analysis that Streetcar farebox revenue was only about half what is expected, the Portland Mercury publishes an article further detailing the Streetcar’s funding woes. One interesting tidbit is that much of the revenue shortfall is not due to fare evasion, but due to TriMet passholders riding the Streetcar: According to…
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Support Active Transportation Funding
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance has an action alert out to ask committee members in the legislature to support increased levels of funding for active transportation.
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Fare Relief
TriMet has a new program for distributing fares to low-income system users via non-profit providers. So for example if you were going to a non-profit medical clinic and were income-qualified, the clinic could provide with you with free tickets for your visit. TriMet is putting about $300K into this program, with up to $25K in…
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Next year’s draft budget, Raisegate, and more
Today, TriMet released a draft budget for Fiscal Year 2014 (which runs from July 1 of this year to June 30, 2014). The agency wants everyone to know that this year’s budget doesn’t contain the unpleasant news that was in last year’s (no service cuts and fare hikes), albeit with the usual asterisk (a favorable…
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Voting Against the Grain on Parking
Yesterday, the Planning and Sustainability Commission voted to recommend new minimum parking requirements for multi-family buildings in transit corridors, with one dissenting vote. The immediate question on Twitter: “was @chrissmithus the dissenting vote?” I was not! It was my colleague Katherine Schultz, an architect who has experience actually building stuff, and knows what the impacts…