Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Hell Freezes Over: CRC Edition

    John Charles and Bob Stacey co-author an opinion piece on the Columbia River Crossing, and I agree with it.

  • Our Correspondent at the Legislature

    Columbia River Crossing skeptic and fellow traveler Joe Cortright reports that Friday at 1pm the House Transportation and Economic Development Committee has a scheduled work session on HJM 22, the resolution supporting Federal funding for the CRC, a measure that many fear will be used as justification for ODOT to divert existing state funds into…

  • Looking at the CRC Bridge Types

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Nancy Boyd (CRC project director for Washington), Frank Green, P.E., CRC structural engineering manager Topic: Columbia River Crossing Bridge Design Debrief When: Friday, April 15, 2011, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204

  • CRC: The Whole Story

    Cascadia Times now has their 9-part examination of the Columbia River Crossing online.

  • A New Transit Appliance and a Deal for Some Intrepid Reader

    Our go-to device for our nascent Transit Appliance project has been the Insignia Infocast, a version of the Chumby platform marketed by Best Buy. Sadly Best Buy has discontinued the Infocast. But the good news is that we have a new contender, the Chumby 8, by Chumby Industries. It’s slightly more expensive ($199) but we…