Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Pedestrian Action!

    A press event coming up from our friends at the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition: Getting Around on Foot: New Report on Pedestrian Safety Needs and Call to Action for Better Walking Conditions Regionally WHAT The Willamette Pedestrian Coalition (WPC) will soon release its Getting Around on Foot Action Plan, a study and report which identifies pedestrian…

  • Our Aging Infrastructure

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2010 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Jason Ideker, Assistant Professor and Kearney Faculty Scholar, School of Civil & Construction Engineering, Oregon State University Topic: Our Aging Transportation Infrastructure: A Concrete Perspective When: Friday, November 19, 2010, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill,…

  • Streetcar Equity

    I’ve been banging the transit equity drum quite a bit lately, so I probably owe it to folks to open a discussion about some of the equity issues we need to sort out as we prepare to open the Streetcar Loop in a couple of years. These are issues that are beginning to be discussed…

  • How Low Can We Go?

    Best Buy just released a 3.5″ version of the Infocast (it’s really just a Chumby One lightly reskinned). It’s sitting on my kitchen counter (in front of a mini-food processor) running the Transit Board™ display. It’s not actually useful, I need my reading glasses to see it (it would probably work better with a UI…

  • Block Groups Complete

    Our census block groups map for our equity project is now fully scored: View Larger Map It contains the same browser feature as the tract map, you can click on a block group to see its score, then click through to a map of the block group and the sample points. At this level I…