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At the CRC Alternatives Review
The panel reviews the alternatives developed by the community. The audience was a Who’s Who of progressive/alternative transportation thinkers, including a number of Portland Transport readers. I spent last night at the Columbia River Crossing alternatives panel organized by Metro Councilor Robert Liberty. A large majority of the 14 presentations submitted by the community were…
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Internet Coming to an Intersection Near You
On Friday I attended the Oregon Transportation Summit. Being a geek, I sat in on the gadget session. One of the more interesting areas was how to detect vehicles at intersections. The traditional technology is the “loop”, a wire embedded in the pavement that generates a magnetic field that can detect the metal in a…
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Keeping Up with the CRC
Two items of note for the Columbia River Crossing: 1) The City of Vancouver is soliciting qualifications for designers to “help refine a vision and concept for the new open space under the proposed Columbia River Crossing alignment.” 2) Metro Councilor Liberty’s alternatives panel is next Tuesday, and we’re happy to point you to the…
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Streetcar to Hibernate
The Streetcar is going on vacation! From Sept 13th to 26th, while we build the connection between the existing streetcar tracks in the Pearl to the new tracks coming over the Broadway Bridge, the streetcar will not operate. The problem is there is nowhere to turn around at the north end of the alignment. This…
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Rapprochement
For the last 18 months or so, Congressman James Oberstar, chair of the House Transportation Committee and our own Peter DeFazio, chair of the surface transportation subcommittee have been beating up on the White House to get going on the every-six-years transportation reauthorization. But the President has had other priorities and the result was a…