Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Join Me in Volunteering for a Sunday Parkway

    The City of Portland is hosting FIVE Sunday Parkway events this summer. These amazing events celebrate community and remind us that streets are for people, not just cars. And they’re a great way to get someone on a bicycle for the first time (or back on a bike after a long time). But these are…

  • CRC Wheels Keep Turning

    Project Sponsors Council conducts joint work session with local agency staff on April 23 VANCOUVER – The Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council will hold a public work session with local partner agency staff at its April 23 meeting. The work session will be held 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Southwest Region office…

  • Post-Motordom Thursday Night

    University of Oregon Graduate Forum Portland Urban Architecture Program Gordon Price Director, Simon Fraser University Urban Center and Former City Council Member, City of Vancouver, British Columbia “Vancouver and the Post-Motordom City” Lecture. Thursday April 22, 7:00 PM. Room 142, University of Oregon Portland Center. 70 NW Couch Street Follow-up Seminar. Friday April 23, 9:00…

  • Continuing to Invest in our Local Streetcar Manufacturing Capacity

    The good news this morning is that the Federal Transit Administration has awarded $2.4M to TriMet (most of it will eventually flow to Oregon Iron Works) for the purpose of using our prototype streetcar to investigate and develop: A U.S.-made (Rockwell) propulsion system Battery technology that would allow the vehicle to operate for some distance…

  • Get Married, Have a Short Commute

    Apparently, those are the keys to happiness… This article (via Planetizen) suggests that human psychology causes us to fundamentally mis-weight the benefits of a larger home versus a shorter commute when making housing choices.