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I Beg Your Pardon, Streetcar Does Not Need to be Fixed
This year’s award for most inflammatory headline has to go to “Portland streetcar bottleneck needs $3.7 million fix less than a decade after tracks laid“. The story refers to finally double-tracking a section of the alignment between 4th Ave and PSU Urban Center around what is known as the “Jasmine Block”. This is not a…
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Be Careful What You Wish For
The Columbia River Crossing took another PR hit this week, with the revelation that by not relying on Washington State to collect the bridge tolls, ODOT will need to invest north of $50M to create a sophisticated tolling system. Now not too many people are more anxious than I am to see that the CRC…
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Cyclists and Intersections: A Seminar Double Header
For the next two weeks, the PSU Transportation Seminar will focus on what happens with folks riding bikes at intersections: Why doesn’t that traffic signal ever turn green? An evaluation of roadway markings for cyclists Speaker: Stefan Busse, PSU CEUG Honors Student Topic: Why doesn’t that traffic signal ever turn green? An evaluation of…
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Open thread for week of November 3-9, 2013
A few news items: The Metro Council has voted to approve the work done so far on the SW Corridor. No more charging your cell phones from TriMet ticket machine kiosks. Stephen J. Smith reports that in 2015, the FRA will permit European rolling stock on US rails. This is a potential win for transit technologies…