Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Let Me Say that Again

    It’s my fault, I buried the lead. In yesterday’s post, I laid out what I think are four legitimate policy questions about how we manage our transit system. And I saved what I thought was the best for last. Apparently, no one could get past the first one, as that was the focus of all…

  • Framing Our Transit Debates

    Our block group map is filling in! I thought that was a good opportunity to reflect on the way our debates around transit service get framed. View Larger Map As the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail line struggles to close its funding gap, the political debate (at least in transportation geek circles) continues to boil. The debate…

  • Walking as a Movement

    From our friends at the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition: TALKING ABOUT A GROWING MOVEMENT FOR WALKING . . . Local Pedestrian Advocacy Group Presents on Feet as Traffic PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 5, 2010 – Next Tuesday evening 7:30-9:00pm at Full Life Café, Willamette Pedestrian Coalition (WPC) will host a presentation and discussion called “On Walking: Growing…

  • Streetcar Loop Cycle Times

    I’m working on a post to talk about some the issues around how we allocate service to the new Streetcar Loop line. While I’m working on that, here’s info on the cycle times for the various segments of the Loop (I’ve been asked about this here before and didn’t have easy access to the numbers):

  • Hacking on the Transit Appliance on Sunday

    I’ll be at the Civicwebs Hackathon Sunday (starting about noon). This is a gathering of coders to produce applications in the civic realm using open data provided by local governments (or others). I’m hoping to get some help developing a configuration tool for our Transit Appliance. This would be a simple web-based user interface that…