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Revealing a Certain Modal Bias
This announcement from the City has drawn some ire in active transportation circles: Green street construction will close bicycle lanes and sidewalks on NE 122nd Avenue between NE Fremont and NE Shaver. Construction starts tomorrow (Tuesday, August 23) and will last about ten weeks. The work will also close on-street parking spaces in the construction…
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Speaking of Equity
A couple of recent and very insightful reports on transportation equity: Brookings has analyzed transit access among households that don’t have access to cars and in some places it’s not very pretty (but maybe not so bad here). Another report (PDF, 361K) looks at some of the same data an analyzes it on a racial…
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Equity Versus Innovation? Which Kind of Equity?
Last week we had a significant achievement for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. Portland City Council approved a $2M application to Metro for Federal Flexible Funds to seed a bike sharing program, one the key strategic objectives of the BTA. But this didn’t happen easily. The bike sharing proposal was part of a package of four…
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CRC Poised to Swallow State Transportation Budget?
One of the ‘promises’ of the Columbia River Crossing project is that it would not cannibalize funding for other projects in the region. The idea was that this was a “project of national significance” and Congress would provide dedicated funding for the Federal component above and beyond our usual allocation. But as we noted when…
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CRC Gets $5M More to Advance Unfundable Design
The Columbia River Crossing project today announced the receipt of two grants (one through ODOT, the other through WashDOT) totaling $5M: CRC received the award available under the Interstate Maintenance Discretionary (IMD) Program with a $2 million grant to the Washington State Department of Transportation and a $3 million grant to the Oregon Department of…