Portland Transport

Month: August 2013

  • Making the Illegal Safe?

    My interest was piqued by something I learned at a recent Planning and Sustainability Commission meeting. We were being briefed on the Outer Powell Safety Project by ODOT. This $6M project will address some issues in the high-crash corridor from SE 111th to SE 174th. BikePortland has a nice write-up as well. One element caught…

  • August 2013 Open Thread

    I’ve been on blog-cation for the past month or so, but here is the open thread for August. The Southwest Corridor Steering Committee unanimously approved the draft recommendations published recently. This includes study of rapid transit (either BRT or LRT) from Portland to Tualatin via Tigard, along with other improvements to local service as well…