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CRC Focus of Legislative Hearing Monday
The House Transportation and Economic Development Committee will hold a hearing on Monday on a resolution urging Federal Funding for the Columbia River Crossing. This is scheduled for 1pm in Hearing Room D at the Capitol in Salem. BikePortland has additional details and coverage. This is a political lollipop. The Legislature can ask the Feds…
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Transportation Equity Event
Sponsored by T4American and a broad range of organizations: Transportation is crucial to ensuring opportunity for all – connecting us to jobs, schools, housing, healthcare, and grocery stores. But millions of working families and people of color live in communities where quality transportation options are unaffordable, unreliable, or nonexistent. The type of transportation system we…
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Open Source in Transit Industry
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What I Learned at Transportation Camp
I’ve just returned from a weekend in San Francisco at Transportation Camp West. I went primarily to make contacts for our Transit Appliance project, and had a chance to give both a conference presentation on it and an Ignite talk (my first time in that format – 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds -…
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CNU Cascadia 2011 Summit 3/25-27 in Portland
From Mary Vogel, the PlanGreen and Advocacy and Alliances Chair for the Cascadia chapter of the Congress for New Urbanism: With a theme of Placemaking’s Role in Sustainability, the CNU Cascadia 2011 Summit will put a great deal of focus on the transit-oriented development along the currently operating Portland Streetcar. Expect some world-class critiques of…