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A Consumation Devoutly to be Wished…
Zero Traffic Deaths… Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2010 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Peter Jacobsen, P.E., Public Health Consultant Topic: Vision Zero: Towards Zero Deaths When: Friday, October 15, 2010, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204 *Speaker sponsored by Oregon Transportation Research and Education…
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Eastside Openings this Week
The East Burnside/Couch couplet has been in operation (and refinement) for a couple of months now, but the official ribbon cutting will be Tuesday at 9AM. In terms of real change on the transportation system, I hope the new signaling system for bikes as they cross the freeway entrance at Williams on NE Broadway (installed…
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Our First Transit Equity Results
Patience, there’s going to be a little bit of detail here… We have completed our first full (and raw and tentative) data set for the equity project. We have accumulated transit scores for over 12,000 points in the three-county area. I decided for the sake of completeness to include all census tracts that include some…
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Infrastructure on the Radio
Tonight the first 15 minutes of All Things Considered was about our crumbling infrastructure, our unwillingness to pay for fixing/expanding it and the economic absurdity of this choice. I sort of feel like our society maxed out its credit cards for a week in Cancun, is now back home and hung over and has decided…
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What Point in our Region Has the Most Access to Destinations via Transit?
According to the work for our Transit Equity project, SW 10th and Yamhill is the winner with a 93 Transit Score. I couldn’t find any points on the Transit Mall higher than 92. My guess is that the access to the additional destinations reached by Streetcar provides a slight edge. Of course our process just…