Author: Chris Smith

  • Metro President Candidates on Funding

    Part Three of our series on responses to our candidate questionnaire. Please remember the ground rules on comments for this series There are some special rules for comments on these posts. As a 501(c)(3), Portland Transport cannot and does not endorse candidates. So please no comments of the form “you should vote for _______ because…

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Family Cycling

    Join hosts Lindsay and Elly for a discussion of family bicycling. Our guests will share how they’ve mastered the fine art of carting toddlers around, riding with elderly parents, and juggling work, school, errands, soccer practice, and even long distance travel by bike. 11AM-Noon, Wednesday, March 3rd KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast…

  • Metro President Candidates on the CRC

    Part Two of our series on responses to our candidate questionnaire. Please remember the ground rules on comments for this series 3. Columbia River Crossing: The CRC, even with the cost reductions currently being discussed, would represent a significant fraction of all transportation investment in the region in the next 20 years. What is the…

  • New Desktop Widget for Transit Arrivals

    If you’re a user of iGoogle, you’ll want to check out this new Google Gadget from one of our readers.

  • Metro President Candidates: Vision and Policy

    This week we’ll be publishing the responses to our candidate questionnaire, starting with the vision and policy questions today. Unfortunately Mayor Hughes has yet to reply to our questionnaire. If he does respond, we’ll include his responses and update these posts when he does. Meanwhile we’ll proceed with the responses from Rex Burkholder and Bob…