Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Bill Would Help Enable Peer-to-peer Car Sharing

    Passed on by car-sharing maven Dave Brooks: I’m sure you are familiar with the concept of car-sharing–a convenient, affordable and sustainable alternative to car ownership. This legislative session, a bill has been introduced to spur what I call “car-sharing 2.0” –car-sharing of private vehicles. Also known as “peer-to-peer car-sharing,” “personal vehicle car-sharing,” Personal Vehicle Carsharing…

  • Save the Dates for Sunday Fun

    The City of Portland has announced the Sunday Parkway dates for 2011: May 22 – East Portland June 26 – North Portland July 24 – Northwest/Downtown Portland August 28 – Southeast Portland September 25 – Northeast Portland See you out there!

  • KBOO Bike Show: Youth Cycling

    Listen to the show (mp3, 26.4MB) Tori and Michelle talk with folks who run programs to get/keep youth (teens and beyond) on bikes, including the Major Taylor Education Program and El Grupo.

  • Sustainable Signals

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Peter Koonce, Division Manager for the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Signals, Street Lighting, & ITS Division Topic: Transforming Traffic Signals to Support Sustainability: Applications, Ideas, and Research Needs Abstract: Today, most streets are designed and managed to meet mobility standards…

  • CRC Surrealism at the Cabinet Meeting

    One of the several advisory groups I sit on is the Mayor’s Transportation Cabinet, which met last week. The Columbia River Crossing was the major agenda item, and it’s taken me a few days to recover enough from my deep depression over the conversation to write about it. It’s like some kind of reality warp…