Author: Chris Smith

  • Feds to the Rescue on Transit Operations?

    The “Public Transportation Preservation Act of 2010” was introduced in the Senate yesterday. According to Transportation for America it will: …authorize $2 billion for transit agencies nationwide to help close funding gaps in operating costs. Transit agencies can use these funds to reduce fare increases and restore services that were cut after January 2009 or…

  • Why You Ride Where You Ride

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2010 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Joe Broach, PhD student, Urban Studies, Portland State University Topic: Developing a Bicyclist Route Choice Model Using GPS Data Abstract: Existing regional travel forecasting systems are not typically set up to forecast usage of bicycle infrastructure and are insensitive to bicyclists’ route…

  • CRC Critique Continues: This Time in “Portland Monthly”

    Randy Gragg takes on the Columbia River Crossing from the perspective of Hayden Island.

  • CRC One-pager from the Loyal Opposition

    JK’s take (PDF, 809K)

  • Clackamas County Weighs in on CRC

    The letter is very diplomatic, but makes three points very firmly about the Columbia River Crossing: If you toll I-5, you better toll I-205, we don’t want your damn congestion Keep the costs real and practical (and by implication the scope as well) Don’t you dare soak up all the transportation funding in the region,…