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Your Questions For Neil, “Round 5”, Part 1 – High-Capacity Projects
Last Wednesday, Chris sat down with TriMet’s Neil McFarlane for a discussion focused on your questions. This has become a sort of annual tradition for Portland Transport, and this year we were very pleased to be hosted by the Portland Opera – the Opera headquarters is located on the east bank of the Willamette just…
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Cars are from Mars, Busses (and Bikes and Trains) are from Venus
In the open thread, I mentioned that a Clark County legislator (Republican Liz Pike) wanted to “restart” the CRC project. The Columbian has the scoop–and not surprisingly, Rep. Pike’s opening bid is to get rid of light rail. Obviously, such a proposal isn’t going to be acceptable to those of us in Oregon–a state of…
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Changing the DNA of City Streets
PSU Transportation Seminar: Speaker: Peter Koonce, Portland Bureau of Transportation Topics: Introduction to the NACTO Urban Street Design – Changing the DNA of City Streets When: Friday, April 4, 2014, 12-1 p.m. Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204 Summary: In this seminar Peter will summarize his contributions to the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide, a guidebook focused…
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A reminder: Transfers Need Frequency
In the recent SW Corridor thread, the prospect of a LRT line connecting Tigard TC with Washington Square and/or Beaverton TC came up. Such a thing is outside the scope of the SW Corridor project as currently defined, but might well be a longer-term project for the metro area. One specific question that came up…
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Updated: SW Corridor Options About to be Narrowed
Update: 3/20/14 Maps of the potential alignments as well as the options proposed for elimination are now available at Metro’s web site. Original Post: 3/19/14 This article on Metro’s site talks about some of the options likely to be removed from consideration in April by the project steering committee. I mourn the tunnel from Hillsdale…