Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • RTP End Game

    The final public comment period for the Regional Transportation Plan commences today. Speak now or hold your peace: 45-day public comment period on the Regional Transportation Plan opens March 22 On Monday, Metro opens a public comment period on both the 2035 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) and the plan’s Air Quality Conformity Determination. The RTP…

  • Eavesdropping on a CRC Phone Call

    With the Mercury’s Sarah Mirk. Two comments on the exchanges Sarah has written up. Nobody is talking about the elephant in the room: the Hayden Island Interchange design certainly has impacts on the community there, but it’s also about whether the Port of Portland gets to develop the West end of the Island at some…

  • Hansen to Leave TriMet, What Next?

    The Tribune is reporting that Fred Hansen will leave TriMet this summer when his current contract ends. This leaves me with three thoughts: Obviously Fred has had a tremendous and overwhelmingly positive impact on the region. For those of us who worry that TriMet’s agenda has become overbalanced toward Light Rail at the expense of…

  • Could Portland’s Bikeshare be Electric?

    Maybe Portland will wind up looking like this. Sanyo has built a series of solar-powered e-Bike charging stations around Tokyo. Locally, they’ve donated an e-Bike to the Mayor and have suggested piloting a solar charging station. Hmmm…

  • Vanity

    I’ll admit that when I saw this list of “10 essential transportation blogs” that my ego was big enough that I scanned the list to see if we were listed. I take some consolation from the fact that none of the entries are specific to a given geographic location, so it may not be the…