Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Game Time for the Bike Plan

    City Council takes up the plan at 2pm today (Thursday). Please come out and join the rally at 1:30 outside City Hall and then help fill the chambers at 2. Find out more about what you can do to support the plan at the Build It campaign site.

  • KBOO Bike Show: Bike Activism and the 2030 Plan

    Listen to the show (mp3, 27.1MB) The theme of today’s show is bike activism in Portland, focusing on efforts to gain support for the 2030 Portland Bicycle Plan, which provides a road map for making Portland a truly world class bicycle city with 25% ridership in the next twenty years. The city council will be…

  • Wireless Devices Good for Transit Use?

    Over at his Price Tags blog, Gordon Price speculates that bans on driving while texting and calling will encourage people to take transit so they can keep their cell phones active and in-use. And the Infrastructurist speculates that the iPad will make commuters so productive on transit that they’ll leave their cars behind. Somehow I…

  • Focus on SB 1059

    The Oregon Environmental Council would like you to support SB 1059. The bill (PDF) would direct the Departments of Transportation and Land Conservation and Development to develop land use and transportation “scenarios” to reduce greenhouse gases and create administrative rules to direct the six major metropolitan areas in the state to create plans to meet…

  • First Eastside Streetcar Rails Go Down Today

    I just learned that the first segment of rail for the Streetcar Loop project will be laid on NE Grand today!