Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • From the CRC Watch

    Local news on the Columbia River Crossing: International Design Panel (one the project didn’t pay for) disses the project. I had a chance to listen to the audio today, and this is the most cogent critique of the absolute failure of imagination and leadership that this bridge is. A must listen – every minute of…

  • Greenhouse Gas Strategies

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2010 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Lewisom Lem, Principal Consultant and Climate Change Practice Leader, Jack Faucett Associates Topic: Promising Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Strategies for the Transportation Sector: Low Carbon Fuels, Leveraging Transit with Smart Growth, and Ports and Goods Movement Opportunities When: Friday, April 16, 2010,…

  • Perspectives on Bikes and Transit

    Last year I had the opportunity to help draft the chapter on bicycle and transit integration in the Portland Bicycle Plan for 2035. So when I learned that a University of Colorado researcher was organizing a focus group on the topic here in Portland, I asked for the chance to sit in. A couple of…

  • Is There a Rush to Replace Fred?

    Updated: 10am Spokesperson Mary Fetsch has provided this list of folks involved in the selection: George Passadore, TriMet’s Board President, appointed board members Rick Van Beveren and Tiffany Sweitzer to join the Board President in forming the TriMet Board Selection Committee. Additionally, to assist the Selection Committee, a Selection Advisory Group was formed to help…

  • AARP Hearts Streetcar

    Via Planetizen: Streetcars make not only healthier communities, adocates say, but also healthier people because they walk to the stops instead of climbing into autos. Full article, which I’m told was the centerfold of the most recent AARP newsletter, here.