Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • An Intelligent View of Congestion with a Digression to Emergency Vehicles

    Over at Human Transit, Jarrett has an excellent discussion of the relationship between road congestion and transit, focusing on why transit will generally not reduce congestion, but is still a worthwhile investment for improving mobility and economic activity. The only point I might add is that over the long term good land use planning is…

  • CRC Money Pit Grows by $42M

    Planning for the Columbia River Crossing, already approaching $100M, will apparently get a $42M injection from Senator Patty Murray. Anyone want to start a pool on whether planning costs for this bridge will exceed the actual construction cost of the Sellwood bridge?

  • A Few Quick Links for the Day

    TriMet and its union appear headed to binding arbitration Portland now has an official electric vehicle strategy Time to pick a design for the Sellwood – coverage by BikePortland Feds treating transportation as a health issue

  • Transit App Comes Out on Top at CivicApps Awards Ceremony

    This evening, Andy Wallace’s PDXBus iPhone app was “best of show” at the CivicApps awards ceremony. [Disclaimer: I was one of the judges.] The app includes real time TriMet arrivals and a host of other features: Bookmarked stop locations Stop lookup by line Nearby stops (using the phone’s GPS) Transit Maps A trip planner Congratulations,…

  • Full URS CRC Report

    I haven’t had a chance to read through it yet, but here it is (PDF, 4.4M) for your reading pleasure.