Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Call to Action on Transportation Re-authorization

    Transportation for America has an action page to encourage the Senate to take a different path on the 6-year transportation re-authorization: Late last week the House released the outline of their transportation bill, which would cut total transportation funding by one-third, kill the tiny slice of dedicated funding for safer walking and biking, slash transit…

  • Updated: Oregonian Sniffs CRC Money Trail

    Updated: July 13 Steve Duin follows up with some choice perspectives. Original Post: July 11 $130M so far. The spindoctoring is the most upsetting.

  • Park by Phone

    I had the pleasure/horror of serving as the lead negotiator for the neighborhood in the NW Portland Parking Plan in the early part of the last decade (and I wish more success to the folks who are trying again a decade later). But one thing I got out of that process was an understanding of…

  • Mica Transportation Bill Prompts Strong Reactions

    I suspect the White House may be regretting that they didn’t put through a Transportation re-authorization bill two years ago when Jim Oberstar, the Democratic chair of the House Transportation Committee, pushed for it. Today John Mica, the Republican chair of the same committee released a draft of the reauthorization bill that cuts spending by…

  • KBOO Bike Show: Cycling and Health

    Listen to the show (mp3, 24.4MB) The Bike Show welcomes guests John Gorham, Wake Gregg and Chris Smith, three people for whom cycling has helped transform their health. All three suffer from serious health issues that cycling treats or manages– even with busy life/work schedules that challenge regular exercise. We discuss how they made the…