Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • 8 Out of 9 Experts Support Federal Transit Aid

    Via Planetizen: A panel assembled by The National Journal overwhelmingly favors the bill now in Congress that would provide $2B in operating assistance to transit agencies.

  • Car Culture on the Wane?

    In a post titled “The Great Car Reset” creative-class guru Richard Florida documents the decline in young people getting drivers licenses.

  • A Brief Glimpse of the URS CRC Report

    A little bit ago, I referenced that testimony had been presented to the Independent Review Panel for the Columbia River Crossing by a consultant hired by the City of Portland to review the project data. A few PowerPoint slides (PDF) from the URS (the consultant hired by the City) presentation are now on the the…

  • CRC Capsule Review

    Back in April, I enthused about the international design panel brought to Portland to critique the Columbia River Crossing and suggested it was worth the 2 hours to listen to the audio of the event. Happily, the highlights of that session are now available as three video segments of about 6 minutes each. If you…

  • Oregonian Makes it Official: We Can Talk About CRC Alternatives

    So the editorial board decrees: The Columbia River Crossing, imagined for a decade and energetically planned since 2005, had bogged down this winter over objections from the city of Portland, Metro, Hayden Island residents and a gaggle of alarmed architects and urban planners. The delicate consensus reached two years ago to proceed with the bridge…