Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Not-to-be-missed Webinar

    This summer I enthused about a presentation by Dr. Eric France, a preventative medicine specialist from Kaiser in Denver who was visiting our region to learning about cycling here. Dr. France is back home and is about to give the presentation as a webinar on Monday from 11am-noon (that’s 12-1 Mountain Time). If you didn’t…

  • One of the Keys to Sustainable Freight: Full Trucks

    I’m serving on a small working group that is trying to develop some high-level ideas for how the City of Portland could encourage more sustainable freight. It’s a little bit of a mind-bender, because all of my urban design sensibilities push for smaller vehicles. But in fact from a fuel efficiency perspective, there is a…

  • Sellwood Bridge Détente Apparently Reached

    As reported by the Mercury, Sam will apparently settle for a share of savings generated by value engineering.

  • KBOO Bike Show: The New Guy

    Listen to the show (mp3, 26.1MB) Hosts Lindsay and Tori talk with the BTA‘s new executive director, Rob Sadowsky. Tune-in to hear Rob’s vision for improving conditions for bicycling in Oregon and how he likes his new role after a few months on the job.

  • What’s the Right Scale for Our Equity Analysis?

    The first pass of scoring is complete, sort of. The map of all the selected tracts is below, and it’s apparent that the strategy of selecting just those tracts that have bus stops is insufficient, there are a number of census tracts inside the TriMet service boundary that have no bus stops. So I need…