Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Fungible Parking?

    I ran across an interesting pair of blog posts last week on the “Reinventing Parking” blog. One asks whether government could tone down the idea of “parking minimums” (parking that is required to be built as part of a new development) by requiring instead that developers simply identify features of their project that could be…

  • Portland to Lake O Transit DEIS Hits the Streets

    This has already been noted on the open thread, but here’s the official notice: DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AND PRELIMINARY SECTION 4(F) ASSESSMENT AVAILABLE; COMMENT DEC. 3, 2010 TO JAN. 31, 2011 What kind of transit might connect the downtown of Lake Oswego and Portland in the future? Find out the alternatives and offer your…

  • CNN Wants to Know About Your Streetcar Rides

    They’ll even take your pictures or video on their ‘iReporter’ site.

  • An Audacious Goal!

    Could Portland Transport be the catalyst for organizing an ecosystem around Transit Appliances? I don’t know, but we’re going to give it a try. We’re launching TransitAppliance.org as a site for coordinating an open source ecosystem for the development of browser-based transit information displays. All you software developers, information architects and web designers, please come…

  • Another Way to Assess Transit Equity

    I greeted “Transit Score” with some interest, and am using it as the basis for our Transit Equity project. But another recently released tool called Mapnificent gives a more visual way to look at how good transit service is for a given location, it shows a map of how far you can get under an…